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...economy got its biggest lift in May from the auto industry, where production was up 9%. Not since 1929, the maiden year of the model A. had Ford sold so many Fords in May. Over at General Motors, Chevrolet enjoyed its best month this year and the second-best May in history. Sales rose...
...Startling the rest of his industry is" a favorite pastime with John P. Cunningham, 63, president of Manhattan's Cunningham & Walsh ad agency. Last week, true to form, Cunningham enlivened his maiden speech as new chairman of the Advertising Federation of America with a proposal that the word "capitalism" be abandoned. Said he: "It would be just as unfair to call today's business operation 'capitalism' as it would be to call squirrels capitalists because they hoard nuts for the winter . . . The word describes only a part of our industrial incentive system-a part that...
There are minor compensations. Parrish brings Claudette Colbert back to films for the first time in five years. As Troy's mother, she is mostly wasted on Karl Maiden, her loutish husband, and on script inanities (these young people "are just trying to fight with their own identity"). But she makes a splendid animated advertisement for Sophie of Saks Fifth Avenue, whose clothes she models with crisp Technicolored distinction. And there are some heart-stirring shots of quilted green land and shimmering lakes, of whaling boats and silver-spired churches taken on location around Windsor, Old Saybrook, Mystic...
Just Bigger. By all that is hallowed in the much-revered dens of Pentagon bureaucracy. Defense Secretary Robert S. (for Strange, his mother's maiden name) McNamara should be tiptoeing through the cutbacks and the rest of his job with all of the lip-biting hesitancy of a young maiden at her first prom. Any deskman in the top-ranking E Ring of the Pentagon knows that a new Secretary should appear tongue-tied by military terminology, respectful of military uniform, and humble at the talk of potential military destruction. But Bob McNamara, his well-slicked hair carefully parted...
...Moscoso's maiden U.N. speech, President Kennedy picked him as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. He will be the first Puerto Rican to represent the U.S. as an ambassador abroad. Venezuela's President is Reformer Rómulo Betancourt, an old friend of Moscoso's. In Puerto Rico, Governor Muñoz Marin called the appointment "a very good thing for Washington, a very good thing for Caracas, but a bad thing for San Juan...