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...Impresario Arthur Godfrey swung the ax at his "family" again. The decapitated: Co-Producer Larry Puck (whose bride, Soprano Marion Marlowe, was fired last spring), Conductor Jerry Bresler, Announcer George Bryan (a ten-year employee), Singer Lu Ann Simms (about to return from maternity leave). At the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, Equestrian Godfrey rasped: "If I can't hire and fire people to suit myself, I'm going to quit...
...China's farmland last year were the worst floods of the century; then, for central and southeast China, came the sharpest frost in 72 years, for south China the worst drought in 100 years. "The calamities were so serious," Red China's Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen reported to the Communist State Council, "that last year's food production was reduced by 25 billion catties [12.5 million tons]." Tientsin's Ta Kung Pao noted: "150 million peasants are short of food...
Today the Red squeeze is on. One prominent American-trained psychologist, Lu Chih-wei, was liquidated when he refused to sign an anti-American testimonial; others have been pressured into phony confessions and self-ridicule. What hurts most is the enforcement of Communism's concept of science as a political and social weapon rather than a "bourgeois" search for truth. Meteorologists were ordered to "learn from Chairman Mao's statement on party doctrine." At a conference of mathematicians, one topic was "How to Realize Patriotism Through Education in Mathematics." At another meeting, the president of the Society...
Panel House. To boost lumber sales, the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association put on its first big national show in New York last week, and displayed the new "Lu-Re-Co" (for Lumber Research Council) house of pre-built panels. To show how easily the house can be put up (at an estimated 25% reduction in labor costs), the association built three of them on the spot (see cut). It has been selling plans for five different Lu-Re-Co three-bedroom houses ranging from $12,500 to $13,500, expects that more than 2,500 of them will...
...city's gutters. Meanwhile, well out of the newsmen's hearing, Attlee and his fellow travelers talked long and earnestly with Premier Chou En-lai and his henchmen of the possibility of expanding East-West trade. At the end of the talks, a Chinese trade official, Lu Shuchang, told newsmen gratefully that British ships were already helping to bring steel, heavy machinery and other strategic materials from Western Europe to Red China. In London, British officials resorted to an Americanism to deny the assertion: "Baloney...