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Ammunition Shortage. At the outset of their struggle with the union the steelmakers had plenty of backing in their campaign for a noninflationary settlement. In mid-1959 the public was fed up with price upcreep, and so was the Administration. Steelworkers themselves were far from eager to strike for wage increases that would probably be nibbled away by price increases. And with U.S. steel companies losing markets to foreign competition, the industry had a strong new argument for holding down labor costs...
...Early morning in the universe," says Narrator Kerouac at the outset, by way of scene setting. On the screen, a beautiful but weary woman opens the shutters of her pad. (She is played by Delphine Youngerman, who calls herself Beltiane.) Outside is Manhattan's Bowery; inside are her little boy and, hung on a chair, her absent husband's "tortured socks...
What are the facts of Russia's claim to be outstripping the U.S. in growth? The one unarguable fact, Central Intelligence Agency's Allen Dulles recently told the Boiling "growth" subcommittee of Congress, is that at the outset of World War I, Russia was the world's sixth or seventh industrial power. But, said Dulles, "in the short space of 30 years since 1928, despite the ravages of four war years and several years of reconstruction, the Soviet Union has become second." Today, Dulles estimated, Russia's gross national product is around...
Last week, in the seaside resort of Blackpool, its beaches deserted by all but the sea gulls, its skies greyed over, some 2,000 Laborites assembled gloomily for Gaitskell's promised post-election "inquest." From the outset, Hugh Gaitskell took the offensive: Labor must drop its demands for nationalization or "be content to remain in permanent opposition...
...dancing, but a gay Aubrey Beardsley ballet, a sort of absinthe-coated peppermint stick, wickedly whirls all Actor Morse's callow, adolescent sex fantasies-Salome and George Sand, Lysistrata and Camille -into one. As the show proceeds, certain scenes are repeated, certain songs are reprised. But from the outset, Take Me Along puts its trust in mood rather than momentum. Rather than shattering the funny bone, ravishing the ear or dazzling the eye, it just leaves a nice taste in the mouth...