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...Reeves, Hercules drew $900,000 in its first week when it opened in 145 neighborhood houses last month. This week, with a total of 600 Eastmancolor prints ready to go (largest order Pathe Labs has ever had), Hercules promises to fill 135 houses in New York City alone. By mid-August it may well be the biggest movie moneymaker...
...game. Rush did not finish a game in twelve straight starts. Buhl came up with a shoulder injury, has not pitched since May 13. But Manager Fred Haney's youngsters, carefully nurtured in the talent-rich farm system, were ready. The record at mid-August...
...uncertain when the modified summit meeting would be held, or where, or what nations would participate, or even whether any such meeting would take place at all. It all depended pretty much on Khrushchev's next note. Washington thought the U.S. could be ready before mid-August, and regular members of the Security Council were expected to discuss the procedural possibilities this week. One possibility: the heads of state and the permanent representatives-among them the delegate of Free China in the absence of Chiang Kai-shek (who made no sound in the matter all week)-could meet...
...Even as demonstrators paraded through the streets of Paris earlier this month, the Louvre's attendance rolled on at a steady 3,000 a day. Nothing short of war or revolution will keep the crowds below 5,000 a day at the peak of the tourist season in mid-August. Nowhere on earth is there another edifice dedicated to man's delight in art that is comparable to the mammoth structure along the Seine, spreading over 49 acres...
...inventories is in the auto industry, with about 750,000 cars in the hands of dealers. But sales were picking up speed; in mid-August they ran 11% ahead of the same period in 1956, and the industry saw only a small problem in cleaning out 1957 cars before the 1958 models come out. The extent of a year-end rise in the boom depends largely on whether the public takes to the 1958 models, and if it can get the credit to buy them (see below...