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Born. To Ronald Reagan, 47, cinemactor turned TV host (General Electric Theater), and Nancy Davis Reagan, 33: their first son, second child (he also has two children by his previous marriage to Actress Jane Wyman); in Los Angeles. Name: Ronald Prescott...
...that, up rose Connecticut's Republican Prescott Bush, who drives a 1955 Cadillac, to sound off against "these gargantuan monsters being forced down the throats of the buying public. They are too big, too fast, too powerful. They are rapidly making obsolete our highways and endangering life and limb, and are enormously wasteful of raw materials" that should be saved for national security. "Unless American manufacturers meet the public demand for smaller, cheaper cars, European imports will take over a steadily increasing share of the domestic market, with serious effects upon employment in American automobile plants...
...President and McElroy will have to hustle to beat Congress. At week's end Connecticut Republican Senator Prescott Bush let it be known that he is drafting his own legislation, based upon the Rockefeller Report, calling for a chief of staff empowered, under the Secretary of Defense and the President, to define roles and missions among the three services and achieve "efficient unified commands." The President's program was essentially the one previewed by Labor Secretary Jim Mitchell before the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City last fall (TIME, Dec. 16). Its principal weapon against labor racketeering...
...denouncing it, so arresting was his invective"), Heywood Broun and Yale's William Lyon Phelps, "at whom the intellectuals used to laugh but whose enthusiasms were really contagious." The only present-day reviewer contagious enough for Knopf is the New York Times's notoriously Phelpsian Orville Prescott. Says Knopf: Prescott can "make them buy the book he praises. We would all benefit enormously were there a dozen like him. Whether they were sound critics wouldn't matter so much to the book trade-not to start with, at any rate...
Bundy did not rule out the possibility of a larger class next year, either. When the University takes title to a Prescott Street apartment house shortly, it will have space that could house about 50 more students. The building could probably be renovated by next September if the University wished. Bundy had nothing to say on these possiblities...