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...active efforts at a political comeback in 1953, he continued to drive into Paris from Colombey once a week to hold court in his Spartan Left Bank office on the Rue de Solferino. And because he remained for many Frenchmen a kind of father figure, men of every political current called to confide in him. Without ever soliciting information, De Gaulle became perhaps the best-informed man in France on the inner workings and gaping inadequacies of the Fourth Republic...
Inspired by tall tales and egged on by television, a new generation of gunslingers is springing up in the once wild West. These six-gun artists would not think of drilling the sheriff, robbing the morning stage or shooting up a saloon. The current crop of gun toters consists of butchers, businessmen and other working folk, intent only on competitive fun as they draw against one another in one of the reformed West's newest and fastest-growing sports...
...five years at Notre Dame, young (30) Terry Brennan won 32 games out of 50, six out of ten in the current season. But it was not enough; he was fired and replaced by Joe Kuharich, 41, a Notre Dame alumnus, professional lineman and coach of the none-too-successful Washington Redskins. The decision outraged many a Notre Dame supporter. Snapped the Catholic and Record, weekly organ of the Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis: "The firing of Terry Brennan is a setback for the priests and laymen who are trying to remake the public image of Notre Dame from football factory...
...stock that was selling for 15 times its earnings was considered expensive. At year's end the price-earnings ratio for industrials on Moody's index stood at 21, and for many stocks it was much higher, e.g., IBM is selling at 47 times earnings. Viewed at current earnings, the market may indeed be too high, reflecting a hedge against more inflation as well as a hope of sharing in the growth of the economy. But it is not too high in the light of the earnings investors think they can expect. Nevertheless, some experts expect a pause...
...current Government fiscal year, the red ink will be about $12 billion; though President Eisenhower plans to present a balanced budget to Congress for the year beginning July 1, the outlook still is for a deficit of upwards of $3 billion. This may well be trimmed as Government income rises with business. Few economists believe that inflation can be ended, barring a depression, since a rising price level has been with mankind since the dawn of time, and is almost inevitable in a dynamic economy. The problem is to keep it within bounds-under a 1½% price rise...