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...Signed the Housing bill, the only major piece of domestic Fair Deal legislation to pass Congress so far. Result: Uncle Sam will soon help pay the rent of one million U.S. families every month...
...pitch was right, Reuther asked them to give his executive board authority to levy a special $1-a-week-for-twelve-weeks strike assessment on all employed U.A.W. members. From their seats behind long, banquet-like tables, the delegates shouted approval. It meant a war chest of some $10 million...
Outside of the fact that he is a movie comedian and worth more than $10 million, Lloyd is a typical U.S. citizen. He works hard, rides a succession of hobbies (old cars, microscopy) with grim preoccupation, loves sports, and has been happily married to the same wife for 26 years-Mildred Davis, once his leading lady. He keeps himself trim at 56 by exercising, eschewing tobacco and drink...
Current London jargon divides crisis solutions into "short-term," "middle-term" and "long-term." The finance ministers' meeting sought results in only the first two categories. The short-term program called for a ?60 to ?100 million cut in imports by the rest of the Commonwealth (excluding Canada) from the dollar area. The middle-term scheme was a new pattern of trade and production so that the sterling area could produce more of the supplies now being imported for dollars. What Whitehall calls "the multilateral stuff" (longterm) will be left for further talks in Washington this September...
...Gentle & Kind." At Rome's Ciampino airport last month the police arrested a "businessman" from New York named Charles Vincent Trupia, who had on him 20 Ibs. of cocaine, worth a half million dollars at peddlers' prices. The police, reflecting that the drug traffic was one of Lucky's oldest loves, hauled him out of his penthouse. Day after day, they questioned him. They wanted to know about another jail suspect who claimed to have been a Luciano lieutenant. Said Lucky: "The way they talk about my 'lieutenants,' I got more than the army...