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...praised the plan as a way to remedy Britain's economic weakness. A printing firm in Lincolnshire began turning out 100,000 "I'm Backing Britain" badges. More astonishing, the 740 other employees at the girls' company, which produces ventilation equipment, agreed to put in a half-hour of unpaid overtime each day. In return, the company immediately cut prices on its products by 5% and sharply reduced dividends to its shareholders. Employees at several other small manufacturing firms also volunteered to put in unpaid overtime...
...season is two months old and one thing is clear: the situation comedies are getting better than ever. Not those dreary half-hour retreads, but those one-minute mini-ha-ha's called commercials...
...force now consists of 62 twin-engine Mirage IV bombers and a growing stockpile of conventional atom bombs of up to 150 kilotons each. The Mach 2.2 Mirage carries a single bomb, and from such bases as Istres in Southern France can be over Russian cities in a half-hour. France has also success fully tested a medium-range missile called sol-sol-balistique stratégique, and plans to have 50 of them by 1970. In Haute-Provence, workers are building underground silos from which the missiles will be launched. This year France launched Le Redoubtable, the first...
J.F.K.-The Childhood Years was an informal and warmly touching half-hour of reminiscences by Rose Kennedy, 77. Composed and strikingly attractive in a hot-pink dress, she was interviewed by CBS Newsman Harry Reasoner in the simple three-story frame house in Brookline, Mass., where President Kennedy and three of her other eight children were born. 'To give courage to other mothers because so many people are discouraged about their children," Mrs. Kennedy mused about her son's chronic tardiness and lack of discipline at boarding school. She told how "the President" heeded her motherly advice...
...surprising and significant departure from its normal fare, radio station WBZ has begun broadcasting a Sunday-evening series of half-hour biographical dramas concerning notable American Negroes. Entitled "The Great Ones," and produced in cooperation with the University of Chicago's Department of History, the series focuses on individuals who have had important influence on America and the world...