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...more than 1,500,000 homes and institutions. More than a dozen people in Maryland were poisoned by carbon monoxide when they tried to cook indoors on charcoal burners. Families on New Jersey's shore had to leave their homes as high tides rammed the coast. In Sag Harbor, N.Y., an 82-year-old man left his house to seek help, drowned in tidewater in his own front yard...
...work, Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff summoned the general assembly into special session. And in Washington, Capitol Hill Democrats, convinced that recession will be their party's most profitable issue in the November congressional elections, were doing the nation's confidence no good by trumpeting statistics of sag and calling for crash programs reminiscent of Great Depression days (see Politics...
...Democratic chieftains in the Senate saw it last week, their party's Big Issue for this fall's congressional elections will no longer be the missile lag but the economic sag. The shift from lag to sag was evident both in dark grey oratory on the Senate floor and in busy bill-drafting off the floor...
Along with a $1.2 billion sag in estimated federal income for fiscal 1958, the extra outgo for defense erased the black ink to which the Administration pointed with pride a year ago. Instead of the estimated $1.8 billion surplus, the Administration foresees a $400 million deficit-red ink brought on by Red Sputniks...
Every school, says Robert R. Tufts, director of Case Institute of Technology's management-training course, "has a center sag problem. It occurs about midway in the course, and students become frustrated and go into grousing sessions." To help relieve the shock of change, Case and several other schools, e.g., Harvard and Southern Methodist, now provide brief side courses for "management widows," in which wives get a fill-in on their husbands' studies so they will be able to talk over problems with them...