Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money ($4.98 list price, $1 more for stereo) the frustrated conductor gets some bandshell marshmallows-Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, Fantasia on "Greensleeves"-preconducted for him by Arthur Fiedler, Morton Gould, Robert Russell Bennett. (Any armchair connoisseur of the Viennese repertory will find Conductor Fiedler's tempi in the Fledermaus waltzes aggravatingly slow, but Gould's version of Mexican Hat Dance is so inspiring that it may result in dislocated shoulders...
...blood alcohol need not impair his actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally admit to himself that he is really "drunk." It is hard to deny; he can no longer control his behavior, is beset by marriage, money and job crises. His main problem is accepting a doctor's diagnosis: alcoholism...
...trouble with television." says TV Producer-Performer David Susskind, "is that nobody aspires to anything but money." (Personally, he ekes out his $100,000-a-year salary and expenses from his own package firm and draws an extra $100,000 from the annual profits.) The networks, he complains, are copycats, scorning new ideas in a race for the bandwagon. (But his own firm, Talent Associates, Ltd., has made its reputation with such tried old "original" offerings as The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Swiss Family Robinson and A Tale of Two Cities...
...Demeter, 23, seemed too weak and skinny to be a big leaguer, but the Dodgers signed him for a paltry $800 bonus on the chance he might fill out and develop power. It seemed wasted money last season, when Demeter, a right-handed batter, hit a sickly .189 for Los Angeles in 43 games with only five home runs, eight runs batted in. But this year the beefed-up (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) Demeter is suddenly a slugging terror, in his first ten games had six homers...
...Council of Economic Advisers, came the sharpest opposition to the bill-he called it "untimely and unnecessary"-as well as backing for Blough's view. In the strongest terms yet used by an Administration economist, Saulnier laid the blame for inflation not on corporations but on "increases in money wages that outstrip improvements in productivity. I believe we have tended of late to depart from the historical relation between wage increases and productivity improvements. And if these cost increases cannot be passed on to the consumer in higher prices, they merely create a squeeze on profits that will, over...