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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house to house warning voters against Milazzo, even attempted in vain to prevent Milazzo from joining Palermo's Corpus Christi procession fortnight ago. In the U.S., the Hearst press urged its Italian-American readers to shower Sicily with anti-Milazzo letters and telegrams; advising the use of night-rate cables, New York's Journal-American pleaded: "Even $2.75 is a small price for preserving democracy...
...find its real level-has ended what used to be one of the most comfortable ways of life in the world. With prices rising, beef consumption is down 40%, capital district retail sales 60%, attendance at movies 20%, attendance at soccer games and horse races 25%. Even the rate of marriages has fallen 13% because of higher costs of setting up a household. The need for dollars to buy U.S. capital goods to raise production has depressed the peso, which hit an alltime low of no a dollar a fortnight ago before climbing back to 86. But the encouragement...
Blue-Eyed Hindu. Shirley MacLaine's success can be measured in more material terms. Her latest movie, Ask Any Girl (TIME, June 1), is climbing to the top of the box office totem pole largely because of her enchanting performance in a second-rate story. For her next picture, Can-Can, she will get $250,000, and she has just concluded another $250,000 deal with NBC for 15 TV specials-not bad for a girl who only a few years ago was a Broadway understudy at $110 a week...
...sharp employment push was also helped by the fact that new plant and equipment expenditures, another area of economic lag during the recovery, are starting to pick up. First-quarter spending was at the rate of only $30.6 billion, but the second-and third-quarter forecast is for a rate of $32.3 billion and $33.4 billion, both well above last year's $30.5 billion...
FORD THUNDERBIRDS are flying high with output at 50,000 thus far in model year v. 37,900 for entire 1958 model year. Despite full production at rate 80% higher than last year, T-Bird backlog is more than 7,000 cars...