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Helping some 3,000,000 Minnesotans celebrate their statehood centennial last week were Norway's comely Princess Astrid, daughter of King Olav V, and Sweden's Prince Bertil, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf. Earlier, the royal junketeers, who looked none the worse for the four-day hullabaloo, had found time for New York shopping and lunch in Washington with President Eisenhower and Mamie. But Bertil, who arrived in the U.S. two days earlier than Astrid, had one regret: no time for golf...
...After a four-day, 1,883-mile trip from Los Angeles to Galveston, Texas, the trophy for the best mileage among 29 cars went to Chrysler's Imperial Crown, driven by Mel Alsbury Jr., 28, a three-time winner. The average of his Imperial, which also won in the high-price class: 62.7188 ton miles per gallon (computed by multiplying the car's weight by the number of miles per gallon...
...should rise sharply, not only because the new plants built by industry are more efficient but because increased competition for jobs should make everyone work a little better. Moreover, as jobs grow scarcer, wages will flatten out. While the Autoworkers' Walter Reuther still talks of demanding a four-day workweek and other plums, wage demands will be tougher to win from management, whose bargaining position has been strengthened by the economic downturn and the scandals in labor's own house that have cost it heavily in public opinion. As a result, the new year may see some angry...
...hired workers in Dallas, where sales are surging.) Chrysler, which captured more than 20% of the nation's auto trade during the first eleven months of this year, may slip to 16% of industry output in December; last week it put its Dodge division on a four-day week. As a result of the cutbacks, the industry's output for December is 6.8% under production originally planned for the month...
...heroes are three Navy aces (Gary Grant, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden) who hitch a ride back home for a four-day pass. "I came here to get drunk and chase girls." Grant announces grandly, but pretty soon an s.o.b. of a VIP (Leif Erickson) tries to pull him off the girls and push him on a stage-to make like a hero for war workers. The rest of the story describes how Grant gets even with the fellow by making time with his girl (Suzy Parker), and how in four days the three flyers get so sick of looking...