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...brother from out west was played by Hank Holmes, his wife by Fred Mueller. Hank was both convincing and delightful, while Fred provided a marvelous caricature of a loud, if not rip-roaring, midwestern wife. Pare Lorentz capably handled a none too sparkling part as Ivy's poor lover Miguelo. The same was true of John Stimpson as Miguelo's friend, Manuel. The third of the Spanish trio, Mona, was given a sultry, slippery, outrageously funny rendition by Don Rabuzzi...
...just sent to Congress called for expenditures of $71.8 billion in 1958, nearly $3 billion more than in fiscal 1957 (ending next June 30). It was a balanced budget, but the estimated surplus, $1.8 billion, was too narrow to permit tax cuts. Ike proposed to use it to pare a chip off the $270-odd billion national debt...
...ride the train himself; he just liked to set his watch by the train's noon whistle. Regulatory agencies know that every road has similar lines that should be eliminated so that the money saved could be used to improve service elsewhere. But they are reluctant to pare the costs, because they want railroads as a stand-by service in case weather makes plane and car travel impossible. Sighs one railroader: "What we are is foul-weather friends...
Virtually all manufacturers are trying to hasten TV's rainbow age with simpler set design and cheaper tubes that may pare as much as $100 from the cost of a color receiver. Bigger cuts will not be forthcoming until the industry can sell at least 1,000,000 sets a year, the point at which it expects to make a profit. For the record, the industry now expects to top that mark...
...just about as big as it has ever been. Yet, in the last ten years advertisers have been steadily deserting the 35? family monthly. "I don't know exactly what the reasons are," says Smith. "I guess they are myriad." By cutting costs, American managed to pare its losses from $800,000 in 1953 to $150,000 in 1954, and last year it broke even. In the first half of this year, as advertising kept thinning out, losses grew to $300,000. Smith decided that the task of wooing advertisers back was too big and costly to tackle...