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...characters are somewhat exaggerated, and the most interesting of them is Falco, "the boy with the ice cream face," portrayed by Tony Curtis. Falco wants to climb the "golden ladder," to arrive "way up high, where it's always balmy." "Nice to people where it pays to be nice," Falco is assigned by J.J. to break up Suzy's romance. Since he won't get space in J.J.'s column until he does, Falco resorts in turn to blackmailing one rival columnist and procuring a prostitute for another in order to have an item smearing Dallas printed in the papers...
...results showed a comeback in Ike's popularity since his alltime low in recession-ridden April, when 49% approved and 35% disapproved. Ike's all-time high on the Gallup popularity scale: 79% at the time of the Geneva summit meeting in July 1955, and again at the start of his second term in January...
...himself about unemployment problems (TIME, March 2), Mitchell was basing his rosy-pink prediction on a recent Labor Department finding on the current high unemployment rate.* The finding: as business picks up, many industrial employers are paying for overtime instead of hiring or rehiring additional workers. Reason: liberal labor contracts have added so many fringe-benefit costs to each employee that it is cheaper-up to a point-to work fewer employees overtime than to add others. For evidence, the Labor Department points out that from January 1958 to January 1959, the number of production workers employed in U.S. industry...
...long run cannot be soundly brought about except with stability in your price structure." And the Joint Economic Committee's minority report, signed by the six Republicans on the committee, backs up the President. Fostering price stability, it says, "is not an alternative objective to a high rate of economic growth. On the contrary, it is a basic requirement for continuing growth...
...what was termed by high-scoring Dick Murphy "probably the easiest match we've had all season," the rifle team outshot Tufts, 1406 to 1332, for their sixth Greater Boston Rifle League victory in nine starts...