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Armstrong's toughest task will be to needle those states that have lagged behind building schedules (see map). Several states are bogged down because they cannot raise their own 10% contribution to match the Government's 90% outlay. Among the laggards: West Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho...
Last week the nation's outlay for medical research was sure of a gentle uplift from Congress, possibly much more. As against a total of $211 million for NIH ($153 million of it for research) in the fiscal year ended June 30, the House voted $219 million for NIH, while the Senate's bill called for an Everest ascent to $321 million. At week's end House-Senate conferees were deadlocked, decided to take a two-week breather. But if the Senate prevailed over the House-even so far as to win a split-the-difference agreement...
...Paris opened with a ballyhooed two-hour revue featuring Stripper Britton and starring Shouter Betty Hutton. Boniface Walters (who ran Manhattan's Latin Quarter for years) paid $22,500 a week just for Singer Hutton. For such a blue chip outlay, he needed two full houses every week night and three on weekends, with every one of the 1,000 seats returning as much as $30. The first week he grossed $70,000 and lost $10,000. Says he: "If I'd paid Hutton a normal salary, I could have made $10,000 instead...
Present color service contracts cost a discouraging $99.50 for the first year, $119 for the second. (Either annual outlay will buy a portable black-and-white set.) Color set owners must acclimate themselves to times when faces suddenly go green or saffron, figures bloom with fluorescence, and backgrounds become crimes against nature or interior decoration. With amazing docility, most color set owners accept these hazards uncomplainingly. Some even boast of learning how to tune their sets as a real accomplishment ; color tuning was an intricate, five-dial operation on RCA's earlier sets, is now somewhat simplified...
...minuscule Communist Party (five seats) to maintain their welfare state, and put through a new program to pay everyone in retirement a pension that is two-thirds of the average of their 15 best years' salary. The election showed a hardening of opposition to this expensive outlay. Agrarians and Conservatives, who are most opposed to the idea, picked up at least 14 seats, fj In Belgium the country was almost evenly divided too, but the Socialist-Liberal coalition that has ruled Belgium through uneventful prosperity for four years was put out of office. The Social Christians (largely Roman Catholics...