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President Johnson's 3.2% guidelines for wage and price increases are, in the light of some 1966 labor contracts negotiated with Administration approval, about as up-to-date as last year's newspaper. Nevertheless, the Administration intends to carry on what an aide calls "a jawbone campaign" urging wage restraint and a return to 3.2%. The reason is that wages are a key factor in the fight on inflation, and in 1967 no less than 32 major contracts will be up for renegotiation...
...Walton talk on the trans atlantic telephone often. "We are good friends, as corny as that sounds," she explains. Her favorite date is Director Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, The Great Race). As Julie says: "People will talk and gossip, and there is nothing you can do about that, so you might just as well go your own sweet way. I don't think anybody goes out of her way to be a scarlet woman, but then there is very little I can do about it if that's what they want...
...place, in jest, "Hilton on the Hudson." In the new dorms, spring mattresses have replaced stuffed cotton bedding, and bureaus have pushed out steel lockers. Morning coffee is served between classes, and some instructors even invite cadets to their quarters for evening pizza and beer. Even plebes can date and dance on the post every fall weekend. Seniors can sip cocktails in the officers' club, a privilege that the Army rationalizes as "the social training of the cadets...
...goalie Errol McKibbon. Dave Quarrie, who alternated with McKibbon in the nets last season is out with an injured ankle, but the Big Red is still not hurting. Sophomore Ken Dryden, brother of Black Hawk reserve netminder Hank, has played well in all the Cornell victories to date...
Total sales to date: 10 million copies, an alltime record for U.S. fiction. In 1945, a Random House editor read A Lion Is in the Streets, by Adria Langley. He rejected it, reporting that "40 pages of this magnolia-laden junk was all I could stand." Lion, published later by Whittlesey House, sold 250,000 copies. A more recent example is the history of Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, a shotgun attack on the Warren Commission. "We commissioned him to write it," says Publisher Barney Rosset of Grove Press, which is known chiefly for its back list...