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...labor by postponing the building of some new plant, and this essentially is what the Federal Reserve Board was attempting to do last week by raising the discount rate from 3% to 31%. highest in 24 years (see BUSINESS). Another way is to cut Government spending, which would mean a cut in Government-financed demand for labor. But perhaps the most important way is for organized labor and big-business management to find a temporary new definition of progress beyond Samuel Gompers' historic American Federation of Labor cry for "More...
...suite where he convalesced last year from his operation for ileitis. He spent most of the time talking to the doctors, reported later at his press conference that Mrs. Eisenhower "medically [was] doing splendidly." (There was no sign of malignancy.) But, he added with a grin, "this does not mean . . . that her disposition is necessarily so good...
...back on"). The other showed that Dio is a cog of sorts in the Hoffa machinery, which includes such officials as Teamster Organizer George Baldanzi. Teamsters' Eastern Conference Chairman Tom Flynn, and St. Louis Teamster Boss Harold Gibbons. And it also showed that one Tony "Ducks" Corallo, a mean-sounding tough with a long narcotics record, may well be a bigger fish in New York than Dio himself. Excerpts (with profanity replaced with electronic "beeps" to keep the business clean for the TV audience...
...Mean Old Germs. For his oddball efforts, Soupy is rewarded with a vast local audience approaching 1,000,000 and some prestige-pushing visits from such stars as Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Sherwood and Duke Ellington. From his two shows and numberless personal appearances, Soupy will make about $100,000 this year. He writes his own material, virtually runs both shows singlehanded. To thousands of moppets who watch Comics daily, he is a genial, long-faced man in a crushed top hat, an outsized bow tie and a bulky black sweater, who moves with rubbery ease from classic grin to classic...
...director almost never can get a whole cast of first choices. And he faces the dilemma of whether to get big names that he knows can't play the part or to gamble on unknowns who just possibly might achieve good performances. A good audition doesn't necessarily mean a good performance, either...