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Newspapers were once content to dig up their own local news and run some wire-service copy on news of the rest of the world. Then they gradually began to import other material: columns, features, crossword puzzles, even editorials from various syndicates. Today they can add luster to their pages with "supplemental" news sent over leased wires by a handful of big metropolitan dailies. By paying anywhere from $50 to $850 a week, depending on their size and location, the papers, in effect, rent a Washington bureau and a string of foreign correspondents that they could not possibly afford...
...brighten the cultural luster of daytime television, ABC last week added two new shows...
...recent successes of Keynes's theories have given a new stature and luster to the men who practice what Carlyle called '.'the dismal science." Economists have descended in force from their ivory towers and now sit confidently at the elbow of almost every important leader in Government and business, where they are increasingly called upon to forecast, plan and decide. In Washington the ideas of Keynes have been carried into the White House by such activist economists as Gardner Ackley, Arthur Okun, Otto Eckstein (all members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers), Walter Heller (its former chairman), M.I.T...
They coasted to a 9-0 win over a lack-luster Boston University squad the Business School Field Saturday morning. They looked good, controlling the ball with a short sharp passing game, attacking and shooting almost at will...
...GLASS MENAGERIE. The texture of Tennessee Williams' 1945 family drama remains unfrayed. a tight weave of poignancy and poesy. The cast is rather lack luster, but the play is by far the best on Broadway...