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Millions of families with incomes not nicked by the recession were gripped by a mood of tight-fisted caution. Liquor dealers reported a drastic switch from costlier to cheaper brands. Chain-store sales were brisker than in booming early-1957 because many housewives were forgoing the comparative serenity of the...
The embarrassing picket was James Sweeny, 59, a onetime coal miner and longtime professional organizer who was booted out of his $6,500-a-year job a few weeks ago and into retirement with a $96-a-month pension. At the same time, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. fired, retired or switched...
Viewing the general condition with considerable alarm, members of Houston's Junior Chamber of Commerce organized a group bluntly called the Murdertown Committee, sent observers to Chicago (murders, first-half 1957: 131) to study crime-prevention methods. Other Houstonians, scanning the city's growing, two-fisted boomtown bustle...
Waves from Wendell. Press Secretary Hagerty's father is a newsman through and through. He is James Andrew Hagerty (the middle names are different, and Jim dislikes having a Jr. hooked on), who left the little Plattsburg (N.Y.) Press for the old New York Herald, went on to the...
In the statement. Paratrooper Gavin, the two-fisted boss of the Army's Research and Development section, bluntly revealed his "intuitive" feeling that Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor had reneged on an agreement to make him head of the U.S. Continental Army Command (with a fourth star for...