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...same special reasons seemed to apply to 1,000,000 other railworkers. Other unions whose wages are tied to cost-of-living escalator clauses were thinking up special reasons for themselves, too. The Government's attitude toward the whole touchy subject of escalator raises was becoming plainer: to try to slow them down without stopping them altogether...
Last week, seven months after they had acted so stirringly against North Korean aggression, the U.N.'s free nations had lost their unity, firmness and clear purpose in the face of the plainer, more dangerous Chinese Communist aggression...
...plain words on the world crisis last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), none were plainer-or better received-than those of Rhys Manly Sale, energetic president of the Ford Motor Co. of Canada. "There is not enough awareness of the danger in this country," Sale told the members of Toronto's Canadian Club. "I can't see this policy of business-as-usual with a touch of defense for flavoring...
...President and his economic advisers* prescribed some vitamins, some exercise and a plainer diet. Steel capacity would have to be raised from 103 million to about 120 million ingot tons, electric power capacity from 67 to 87 million kilowatts. Besides adding another million men & women to the armed forces within a few months, the U.S. needed "probably not less than four million more in defense production by the end of the year." More women and oldsters would have to go into industry...
...Scholar Geoffrey Grigson sets out to make a case for three such painters, all born in 1741: Henry Fuseli, John Henry Mortimer, and James Barry. "They share," Grigson says, "in the sense of turmoil, of the black and red river, of the black and cavernous and jagged abyss . . ." In plainer language, all three painted more or less high-toned horror pictures...