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...Government and planemakers will decide on one design for the Mach 3; the Government will then let contracts to one or more planemakers and share the burden of the development costs. President Kennedy has asked Congress for $12 million to get the program started, and the Government may recoup at least a part of its investment by collecting a royalty on each plane. Planemakers estimate that the new craft will sell to the airlines for from $12 million to $25 million, depending on the number of manufacturers involved. (A Boeing 707 costs $6.1 million...
Still, it's a great show for what the Disney organization has called "the under-twelve sector," and even though it runs long enough (2 hrs. 6 min.) to make the over-twelve sector squirm. Family seems likely to recoup most of Disney's 1960 losses: $1,500,000. The tigers are pretty, the boa is a swallowpaloosa, the tree house is a little boy's daydream. And the violent, ludicrous last-reel battle with the pirates is a grand display of blow-the-man-downmanship-a regular Donald Duck comedy in live action...
Bonus for Scoops. Clearly outpaced in performance and ratings by NBC at Los Angeles, CBS pulled out all stops to recoup in Chicago. Its oracles tried to capture some of the colloquial ease that made NBC's Huntley and Brinkley outstanding; when President Eisenhower entered the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, his face spattered with confetti, Ed Murrow observed: "It looks like the President is trying to blast his way out of a sand trap." But Murrow as a humorist simply was not convincing. CBS also threw in extra cameras, rigged up arc lights, offered its reporters bonuses for scoops. When...
...Vilest Practice. But that night Johnson moved in gallantly to help Kennedy recoup. John McClellan's amendment, he pointed out to Southerners, was a Southerner's booby trap. If the Secretary of Labor were to get injunctive powers, could he not force integration of Southern unions? And would not the Attorney General seek similar powers to enforce civil rights? A.F.L.-C.I.O. lobbyists sought out Republican liberals, argued that the McClellan bill of rights would loosen labor discipline and pave the way for wildcat strikes. Kennedy and staff settled down with Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox to write...
...this atmosphere arrived an unlikely heroine: a strong-jawed, 26-year-old matron named Anna Cora Mowatt. Anna's lawyer-husband had broken down physically and financially, and Anna blithely set out to recoup by writing a play. Fashion, her maiden effort, ran a respectable string of performances at the Park in 1845, and launched Author Mowatt on a heady career as an actress. It also gave the U.S. its first home-grown play of any success...