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Going for him, Capehart had experience, a recognized name, and a pretty good political organization. Going against him, he had the most ponderous manners and the heaviest jowls in U.S. politics. On his record, he was not too far to the right of middle-of-the-road Republicanism. But his image was that of a conservative who had just crept out of a cave. For weeks, he had demanded that the Kennedy Administration take strong action against Cuba; when action was taken. Homer thought he had it made. But with ranks closing behind the President, no one heard Capehart...
...search of Lebensraum with a view, affluent West Germans in the past few years have swarmed across Europe on the biggest Iand-buying spree in their history. Germans have become Europe's heaviest buyers of vacation homes in virtually every bracket, ranging from a department store tycoon's $1,000,000 pleasure dome on Cap d'Antibes to $1,500 cottages on the Mediterranean that are advertised as "your own castle in Spain." Though the stock market and their economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels...
...Heaviest losers were the steelmakers. Bethlehem Steel, the nation's second largest producer, shaken by a 59% drop from last year's $33.9 million to this year's $13.9 million, chopped its quarterly dividend from 60? to 37½?. Jones & Laughlin's earnings melted from $10.1 million to $1.9 million while deficits were reported by Pittsburgh Steel ($814,000) 'and Kaiser Steel ($2.5 million). By contrast, steel's tough competitor, Aluminum Co. of America, increased its earnings 26% from $9.4 million to $11.8 million...
Moscow was reeling under the heaviest American cultural onslaught in its history. Within the space of only a few weeks, Bass Jerome Hines had launched a Russian tour from the stage of the Bolshoi, Igor Stravinsky had returned to his homeland, and George Balanchine had arrived with his New York City Ballet. Then, almost unheralded, the Robert Shaw Chorale turned up last week and outdid them all. At an opening concert at Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the 34-member choral group scored a popular triumph the likes of which Moscow had not seen since 1958, when Van Cliburn took over the town...
...strike day dawned bright and clear, many suburban workers bolted from the breakfast table with their kippers uneaten and their cuppas undrunk. To their surprise, there was no need at all to rush. As it turned out. the heaviest road traffic was not going into London but the other way-to beaches, picnic grounds and golf courses. For every brave Briton who had decided to struggle to work, it seemed that at least two simply took the day off. The City of London had one-third its normal inflow of 1,500,000 people. Shops were half empty. Autos zipped...