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...earn higher incomes, which in turn would allow them to consume more of our manufactured goods. The long-run effects of such a policy would surely be a greater benefit to our shortsighted industrialists in terms of increased sales and good will than would the production of more junk...
Died. Edward J. Meeman, 77, editor from 1931 to 1962 of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, who championed the TVA against private power owners and spent 20 years fighting Memphis Political Boss Edward H. Crump ("May his machine be cast into the junk heap"), finally won the engagement in 1948 when the Press-Scimitar's backing, against Crump's bitter opposition, helped put Estes Kefauver in the Senate; of a heart attack; near Memphis...
...salvage industry, which buys up wastes from plants, offices and homes. The copper in a skillet, for instance, may have an indefinite series of incarnations over a cycle of many years, moving from smelter to refinery to brass mill to the factory to housewife's kitchen to junk collector to a secondary refinery where it is smelted into ingots and sold back to the factory. Overall, only an estimated 15% of all the copper ever mined has been lost...
...probably would not challenge Senator Everett M. Dirksen, but if Dirksen declines to run for medical reasons, he might be tempted to seek that seat. More likely he will try for governor, his father's old office. Governor Otto Kerner would like a third term but the party might junk him in deference to Stevenson if Stevenson demonstrates vote-getting power...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Comedy tonight, when Chris Nye (Angie Dickinson), top New York fashion model, and her super-adman husband Will (Cliff Robertson) decide to junk their careers and head for the hinterlands, where he can fulfill his life's ambition to be a crusading editor...