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...light some boilers under the ICC, the Administration is backing a "time-lag" bill requiring that rate cases before the ICC be decided within 60 days. It is also trying to streamline the ICC by eliminating some of its 15 scattered bureaus. To this end. three bureaus were merged into one last week. And it is pressing for the resignation of Democratic Chairman J. Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson. 75, both for patronage reasons and to put in a younger chairman. So far, Johnson refuses to budge. Actually, Johson is one of the most vigorous and effective men at ICC, within...
...Bother? In five years, according to the best figures available in Hong Kong, the Reds have succeeded in setting up only 14,000 cooperatives out of a targeted 800,000 for all China. Some of the reasons for the great lag, as told by a team of Communist inspectors reporting to their bosses from a small area in South China...
...Prime Minister who hurriedly arrives to claim Christopher Terriford's momentous formula for Britain was once a beau of Christopher's lady mother. But Scientist Christopher as firmly resists the P.M. on moral grounds as probably his mother did on matrimonial ones: arguing that spiritual matters, today, lag far behind scientific ones, Christopher will surrender his formula only in time of war or dire necessity. Meanwhile Christopher's chief assistant-who is in love with Christopher's wife-talks too much to a white-tied foreign gentleman, and Christopher is kidnaped. He soon returns, unharmed, perhaps...
...United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe, measuring a single commodity, steel, found the same lag. Production in 1953 remained static in Italy, and actually dropped in Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Western Germany. Meanwhile, Red output rose as follows: Russia, 10.1%; Czechoslovakia, 17.4%; Hungary, 14.6%; Poland, 13.1%. Biggest steel-production increase...
Ashenfelter, a lean, long-legged (5 ft. 10 in., 145 Ibs.) runner, was almost on the button after the first mile: 4:24.5. But then he began to lag. At a mile and a quarter, as the crowd was already clapping him along with urging applause, Ashenfelter was more than 2 sec. behind. At trackside, Wilt gave him the thumbs-down signal. For the final lap, Ashenfelter never even bothered to look at Wilt. He just put his head down and ran as hard as he could...