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Last week the Census Bureau handed in its final report, and the sure thing gurgled down the drain. New York's population is now 7,795,471, down 96,486 in seven years. Mayor Wagner refused to accept the figures. Then the state attorney general eased the pain by ruling that state aid would not be reduced unless the next regular count confirmed the decline. Net result of the gamble: a $1,500,000 loss to the municipal pocketbook and a stiff blow to municipal pride...
...American folklore. Depending on the circumstances, he ranks midway between the riverboat cardsharp and the village idiot, part freebooting buccaneer and part plain boob; or he appears, armed with screwdriver and flashlight, as a latter-day St. George riding heroically against the dragons that infest the nation's drain traps and fuse boxes. In commuter cars, at cocktail parties and women's clubs, he is the center of a game of "Can you top this?"-an endless recital of domestic triumphs and defeats. The plumber who forgets his tools is legendary; now, says one pained Washington housewife with...
Couple One is a somewhat surreal composition: an oversexed grease monkey (Cameron Mitchell) married to what he calls, when he's sore at her, "common Tennessee dirt" (Joanne Woodward). The girl looks like a chippy, and she can drink like a French drain when she's a mind to, but all she really wants is Social Acceptance and A Baby of Her Own. He, on the other hand, is strictly a smalltime sadist whose idea of fun is to kill Japs, and whose ambition is to be the local chief of police...
...sold sterling to buy dollars and other foreign currencies to pay their bills well in advance of due dates, thus save money come devaluation. On the other hand, the laggers (foreign traders) had delayed buying sterling to pay their bills, hoping to settle with a cheaper pound. The unexpected drain on sterling might run as high as $1 billion unless the British convince the world that they have the determination and resources to defend the pound...
...began the fourth quarter of last year of a dollar gap for the first time since 1952. Though down from $600 million in the first quarter of 1957, the second-quarter U.S. surplus of $400 million (exclusive of a special $300 million payment to Venezuela) was still a heavy drain on foreign reserves. But Britain's Thorneycroft suggested a stronger remedy aimed to control U.S. inflation as well as help him at home. Said he: ''By importing more freely, you would both lower prices and at the same time sustain the reserves of the free world outside...