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Although the boost was originally proposed by wool-state Congressmen as a defense measure, it was also their price for going along with the Administration's program of lower support prices for other agricultural products. Actually, the fatter subsidy could result in lower consumer prices for woolen goods, because Congress also decided that the 1955 clip should seek its own price level in a free market. The Government will make up the difference to growers out of the duties on wool imports. Under the present law, the Government guarantees the growers up to 90% of parity by buying...
...slugabed who refuses to get up in time to scramble the eggs and perc the coffee. Furthermore, the survey showed, many teen-age girls are scared by diet-conscious mothers into skipping breakfast. Then, after the breakfastless daughter goes off to school, Mom rises late, stuffs herself and gets fatter day by day. The nutritionists' remedy: less eating, more cooking by mother...
Flying with Crows. Labor campaigned on promises-fatter pensions, lower taxes, better medical benefits - but did not say how it would pay for them without landing Australia in another inflationary cycle. Neither party gave much thought to Australia's foreign policy. Said the Sydney Morning Herald in disgust: "Indo-China might be as remote as Timbuktu." Yet Communism may have been the issue that kept Bob Menzies in power. The arrest of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov and the rescue of his wife (TIME, April 26) gave the Liberals a readymade chance to revive their hoary cry: that Evatt...
Their complaints: in most countries a physician makes five to nine times as much as a manual worker, but in Israel he is lucky if he makes half as much again. Many a hospital cook with a big family takes home a fatter pay envelope than the chief of the medical staff (380 Israeli pounds, or $292, after 25 years' service...
...wives ever succeeded in smoking him out into court to fight a divorce brawl. Playboy Manville, 60, in escaping his previous marriages, barely dented his $20 million mad money. But shrewd Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, No. 9, enticed Tommy into a Manhattan court last week. Anita, 31, wanted a fatter payoff in her separation agreement: $1,250 a week instead of the piddling $1,000 a month she gets. When their honeymoon was only two days old, Anita testified, teetering Tommy lugged out photographs of all his ex-wives and old flames and hung them all about the house...