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FILTER-TIP cigarette competition will get hotter when R. J. Reynolds brings out its new king-size Winston at just 2? a pack above the price for its Camels. Most filter tips sell for 6? to 9? more than regular cigarettes...
...coming session of Congress gives an impression of being lost and leaderless. Accordingly, the Democrats want to avoid opposing Eisenhower, and at the same time they want to encourage all possible dissensions in his party. At the first session, the Democrats had some luck with this tactic. Although hotter heads now demand a frontal attack on Eisenhower, wily Democratic Senate Leader Johnson counsels waiting to see how Eisenhower makes out in his new role of positive leadership. Johnson puts it this way: "We will back the President when we think he's right; we will oppose him when...
July: The war in Indo-China will wax hotter. Secretary Dulles will announce that the U.S. is ready to fight in Indo-China. On the same day, Secretary Wilson will say that the U.S. will never fight in Indo-China. Considerable confusion will be followed by an announcement by the President that all further statements on Indo-China must come directly from the White House...
...Union of South Africa last week, housewives and bookworms were combing their dusty shelves for copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Hopalong Cassidy Comics. Reason: the lady and the cowboy, together with a rapidly mounting list of other books considered offensive by the government, were suddenly hotter than a chunk of radioactive cobalt. By a neat change of phrase in the law that formerly merely prohibited the sale of such books (penalty: $600), Interior Minister Theophilus Dönges had made it a crime even to possess them. Standing dusty and unused on a forgotten bookshelf, a copy...
CORTISONE price war, already hot, will probably get even hotter soon. Two of the biggest makers of the new drug, Merck & Co. and Upjohn Co., have cut prices 22%, the second such reduction in recent months. Reason for the cuts: new techniques have upped production tremendously...