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Steel specialists, such as Editor Tom Campbell of Iron Age, took President Hood's statement to mean simply that Big Steel, traditionally the industry leader in raising prices, does not intend to hike its prices July 1 but will do so eventually. Steelmen are awaiting an announcement this week of the Consumer Price Index to tell them how great a cost-of-living increase they will have to add to their contract wage boosts...
...Does this indicate a departure from the Administration's previous attitude toward freeloading by high officials?" Hagerty: "I don't know what you mean by that . . . This is a personal friend, if that's what you're talking about." Reporter: "It's all right for a personal friend?" Hagerty: "I stick with the letter that the Governor issued. The facts as they...
...International inspection, to be effective, might have to be set up not only in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. but in Australia, where Britain has an atomic testing ground, the Sahara Desert (presumably the French portions) and Communist China. Hedge No. 2: Suspension of tests alone would mean little without inspection against surprise attack, suspension of nuclear war production, limitation of conventional arms. "I would anticipate that any agreement to suspend testing, if made, would not be an isolated agreement, but be a part of other arrangements . . . All suspension of testing means is that the arsenal of nuclear weapons that...
...town of Warren, Ark., scene of the annual Bradley County Tomato Festival, country families left off from their Saturday-morning shopping and gathered festively at the courthouse. It was a big day: two gubernatorial candidates were coming to town to preview a political campaign that will mean more to Bradley County-and the rest of Arkansas-than just tomatoes. The two candidates are the chief rivals, in the July primaries, of none other than Orval Eugene Faubus, twice-elected Governor, center of the Little Rock debacle that put federal troops into Arkansas to enforce...
...obligations, the routine, it can all get to be like a trap. Now you take your mother, Billy, she don't understand this. Oh, it ain't that I don't love my family; it's just that - it ain't enough. I mean, a man's got an obligation to himself, too, to be happy the best way he can. D'y'understand?" But how can a kid that age understand? Pa gives up and buys him a beer and goes off to see his girl...