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Burdened with the world's highest labor costs, the 15 U.S. shipping lines are kept afloat financially only by the Federal Government, which pays the difference between U.S. and foreign operating costs. Since wages are un likely ever to be rolled back, the ship ping industry's sole chance of getting off the federal dole ($245 million in 1963) is to replace men with machines. Steaming ahead of all the others in that direction, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. last week asked the Government for an unusual subsidy: to put up, in the interest of efficiency, half...
...gets up and walks to his desk, not wearily. In thinking thesis his mind is as alert as when stung by coffee; but he needs no caffeine late at night trying to sleep; early in the ayem his nerves play ping-pong with his psyche...
...baby sitting, raced after him, pleading and cajoling. After a long, cooling walk in the streets, Di Stefano agreed to sing -on one condition: the programs must be gathered up and brought to his dressing room. The curtain went up 25 minutes late, and Di Stefano sang nicely, step ping out of character at every hint of applause to bow grandly. The ushers snatched the offending programs back from his dressing room at the final cur tain and passed them out to the departing crowd. Thus those whose ears had not already informed them that Giuseppe is not the peer...
Their bow tips rise and fall over their nine violins with the discipline of smoothly moving piston rods. Be neath the ping of a pizzicato the big-bellied strings-three violas, three cellos and a bass-growl like well-tuned sports cars. The horns sing out on the curves as the harpsichord taps its deli cate echo in the background...
...Chief Chen Yun opposed Mao's Great Leap and it only cost him a temporary fall from power. The other five committeemen are Heir Apparent Liu Shao-chi (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959), Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, May 10, 1954), Defense Minister Lin Piao, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping and Congress Chairman...