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...strongest case is against additional billions for public housing. Though the Senate wants 45,000 more units by 1963, and the House proposes 190,000 more units without a time limit, builders and city planners agree that the U.S. already has more public housing authorized than it can digest. Money has been appropriated for 110,000 units on which work has not even started. In Philadelphia, for example, 10,000 units have been authorized over the last few years, and 5.000 of them are not yet under construction. Cities are having trouble with rising costs and finding suitable "intown" sites...
...pompous baritone named "Donald Ronald" who happily mouths "Honeybunch, you drive me frantic with your smiles," but utters only a half-Nelson eddy of sound. After more silent facial farces, Green joins Betty in loudly husking cornier Shubert operettas (The Baroness Bazooka). There is also a Reader's Digest book condensation that scrunches Gone with the Wind into 22 words...
...Little Rock, Publisher Wells was speedily disciplined for standing up for Brooks Hays. Arkansas' house of representatives, which does Orval Faubus' bidding, notified Wells that it was canceling his $10,200 contract for publishing a daily digest of legislative sessions. Professed reason for the sudden cut: economy...
...Time to Digest. In the sense that the drop was the fastest and deepest, the recession was the worst since World War II. The gross national product lost $19.8 billion in six months. It was also the most carefully reported, closely analyzed and best understood of the three postwar recessions. Everyone knew the basic causes: businessmen, expanding at fantastic rates ever since World War II, had to slow down; the economy needed time to sit back and digest all the new capacity. Plant expansion, roaring along at the rate of $37.8 billion in 1957, dropped to $29.6 billion...
...reported its chief, Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. The patient swallows a balloon through which a frigid (23° F.) solution of alcohol and water is circulated. The chilling cuts down blood flow, and also the secretion of gastric juices to a negligible level so that they can no longer digest the stomach wall at the ulcer site. In ten patients it has taken an average of 25 cold-stomach hours to stop the bleeding...