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...rising sales have checked the drastic cutting of inventories, one of the heaviest pressures on the economy. Manufacturers' inventories of finished goods in October held to the same $48.9 billion level as September, the first month since August 1957 that manufacturers did not cut stocks. Instead of living off their stocks, as they had been for a year, businessmen were stepping up their buying again. One immediate result was a lessening of unemployment. The Labor Department reported that employment picked up in most of the nation's major industrial centers last month. Six areas were removed from...
...mock Churchill's famed crack that the Cross of Lorraine was the heaviest he had to bear, he was presented with a cross carved out of pure crystal and weighing three pounds. No sly repayment of old wounds was intended (A great leader, De Gaulle once wrote, "only slightly tastes the savor of his revenge, because action absorbs him entirely"). Instead, removing his two-starred kepi, De Gaulle gave Churchill the standard French embrace of a peck on both cheeks...
...impossible for Republicans to recapture control of the Senate in 1960; not enough Democrats will be up for re-election in non-Southern states to permit the G.O.P. to make up its 1958 deficit. When the 86th Congress convenes in January, a Republican President will be confronted by the heaviest opposition-party majority in this century...
...between candidates, once 20% in Harriman's favor, has narrowed to a hairline's difference. And among voters who made up their minds in the last fortnight, Rockefeller is the choice 8-2 in rural areas and a remarkable even-Stephen in New York City, where the heaviest Democratic vote must come from...
Author Nadine Gordimer must be one of the heaviest crosses white South Africans have to bear. She not only tells the truth about her countrymen, but she tells it so well that she has become at once their goad and their best writer. In two books of short stones and a novel, The Lying Days (TIME, Oct. 12, 1953), she had already revealed so much of white hypocrisy and black frustration that her work might have seemed finished. Now, at 34, she proves in an excellent new novel that the faces of evil and arrogance have an endless variety...