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...Still boasting N.E.S.R. (not even standing room) business after packing the house for every performance since opening night 2½ years ago, My Fair Lady passed its 143rd week (1,140 performances) on Broadway to set a new sellout record for long-run shows. Oklahoma!, the former champ, missed out on some standees in its 143rd week; South Pacific had a few square feet of space in the rear of the theater after its 130th week. By year's end Lady's producers expect their books to show $10 million of gross business, a round million more than...
...finds only poor prospects for long-run growth in the fact that private consumers and producers have no large blocks of unsatisfied needs to be met. "The outlook is not too good," Meyer claimed, "and the present situation is also decidedly...
Hold the Vultures. Dulles flew down to talk with President Juscelino Kubitschek and to repair the damage done to inter-American solidarity by the anti-Nixon riots last May. Kubitschek had written to President Eisenhower suggesting a presidential get-together. Later he proposed "Operation Pan-American" for a long-run strengthening of the hemisphere's bonds by planned economic development. Dulles studied Kubitschek's proposals on the long flight south, and also read reports of the reception being planned for him by leftists and nationalists. Flocks of vultures were to be released, roadblocks set up, demonstrations staged...
Time will be necessary to assess this curriculum's long-run effects, for it has been in complete operation in the eighth and ninth grades for only three years and is only just now being expanded into the tenth grade. It has had seven years of experiment in the eighth grade and as an idea its history is much older than that...
Many public works program, as Eisenhower has pointed out, are a waste of public funds--but this does not necessarily imply that they are therefore undesirable. Admittedly, expenditure programs have a long-run rather than immediate impact on the economy; still, their value, socially and economically, is certain. A recession is not the time for the government to economize, and fear of deficit financing often implies fear of positive action...