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Good Old October. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany swung less wildly but he pulled no punches. He jeered at the Administration's balanced budget and "tight money" policy, turned defense expert to proclaim that the balanced budget is "weakening the national defense program." His "program for action to put America back to work": 1) new legislation to "cushion the shock" of unemployment and "safeguard purchasing power," 2) a vast, Government-sponsored building program, 3) "justified wage increases" and a shorter work week "to spread the available supply of jobs...
...television industry seems to have the notion on occasion that it is a tribe of electronic Watusi. too tall to recognize anyone but giants. At award time each spring, the critics bow before Hope, proclaim faith in Dinah, show charity toward Sullivan. Last week the Peabody Awards committee changed TV scripture by singling out a cheery and engaging local show for one of its top awards. Shown only over Chicago's independent WGN-TV (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m.), The Blue Fairy in little more than a year captured Chicago youngsters without a struggle; now it has recognition...
...open blue convertible escorted by plumed lancers down troop-lined streets to the Congress building, to make his yearly state-of-the-nation speech. There he announced his "aim of perfecting a durable, democratic regime." He said the government would introduce bills to lift the state of siege, proclaim a general political amnesty, lift restrictions on freedom of expression, adopt a new constitution...
Fidel Castro got around to the cold war last week-and declared himself a neutral. "Why choose sides?" he asked a rally of 100,000 Havana workers. "Why say that all America must join one of the bands? Why not proclaim our right to live?" Castro's neutralism was a forthright rebuff to the U.S., but in expressing it he also slapped down one of his oldest supporters, ex-President José ("Pepe") Figueres of Costa Rica, who sat near by as a guest of honor...
...them. Nasser's United Arab Republic had fomented the Mosul rebellion, cried Kassem, ordering the expulsion of nine Egyptian diplomats. "The curtain is raised," trumpeted Baghdad's daily Al Thawra. "Abdel Nasser is revealed as the great plotter, enemy, dictator, and shedder of blood. Those who proclaim pan-Arabism and raise Abdel Nasser to the rank of prophet have been exposed. Gamal Abdel Nasser has sent arms to Mosul for fighting because he wanted to annex Iraq and add it to his kingdom...