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...dispel the gloom and to stiffen his countrymen's resolution to achieve prosperity and independence, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer gathered together six Cabinet ministers and made a flying postconference trip to Berlin. To the 2,200,000 West German citizens of this beleaguered isle in the German Red sea, he promised generous help from Bonn to fight unemployment, expand West Berlin commerce with West Germany and meet the city's big budget deficit of 900 million Deutsche Marks ($214,285,000). To the 17 million East Germans, for whom the Berlin conference was a last forlorn hope...
BLACK & white TV picture is brightening a bit after all the gloom over color television. Retail sales are climbing back to normal, and some dealers are even running short on popular models. Westinghouse upped its January production 11%, and Admiral boosted February production schedules 45% to 50% over the first-of-the-year estimates...
...What motivates Walter Reuther? What prompted Adlai Stevenson's 'fear' speech? Could Senator Paul Douglas be worried about election year? . . . Just what is Wayne Morse and his one-man party contributing to the welfare of the country? Yet, this quartet rides like the Four Horsemen, spreading gloom and doom across the land . . . The left wing in America regards a depression as its one-way ticket into power...
...country" for making certain that every individual American has the opportunity to make of himself what he can, with the Federal Government acting as a sympathetic big brother. By following President Lincoln's example, the President said, We "don't have to listen to the prophets of gloom who say that we are going to go into a kind of stumble or fumble or fall...
...opening night last week, Director Balanchine stood in the backstage gloom, a slight (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ibs.), straight, greying man with a rudderlike nose, wearing a brightly checked shirt and string tie, quietly smoking a cigarette while his dancers gathered in the wings. Nobody paid him much attention, and he made no move to watch the first number-"I've seen it," he said. Nor did he wish any of the dancers good luck. "We don't say anything," he says. "It's bad luck." During the performance, while dancers were bouncing...