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Then fell the news of Stalin's mortal stroke. Republican leaders grabbed it as a chance to avert a partisan brawl. The resolution, said Taft, was not worth a big fight. The Administration began studying ways more effective than resolutions to weaken the Communist grip on the slave nations...
Their opposition is based on two arguments. First they say that controls in general are useless, and deny the need for them even in wartime. N.A.M. chief Charles R. Sligh gave the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to believe that corporation taxes and like measures would keep a grip on the inflation spiral. Senator Capchart, no friend of government control, answered by saying that Congress would surely pass controls on "wages, prices, and rents in event of an all-out shooting war." And they are obviousy needed then. The Federal Reserve Board, which under normal conditions sways price trends...
...trial heat, when he knows he has to race the same runners again, Whitfield will turn to his closest pursuer and shake him by the hand. Whitfield admits: "I congratulate him, surely, but I study his face. How tired does he look? How much strength is there in his grip? That way I know what I've got to have to beat him the next time...
Based on a Gogol story, The Marriage is a comedy about a reluctant bachelor in the grip of a marriage broker. Martinu's score is lighthearted and craftsmanlike, though it contains no particularly memorable music. The production itself comes across as first-rate entertainment, thanks in good part to the collaboration of Composer Martinu and energetic, talented Peter Herman Adler, 53, director of NBC's television opera program...
...freshman basketball, front-running Holworthy (7-0) tightened its grip on first place with a win yesterday. Second place Grays (6-0) also won. Matthews, in third place won and now sports a 6 and 1 record. A crucial game Monday pits Holworthy against Grays, and on Tuesday they meet Matthews South...