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...most obvious solution would be to kick out the price props, scrap the export subsidy, and forget all about special taxes on imports-all of which would save U.S. taxpayers $365 million a year. That, plus a loosening of the stiff acreage controls that favor the small Southern cotton growers, would enable the efficiently automated bigger growers in the flatlands of the West to expand, prosper and better compete in world markets. But in Washington this was the last cotton-pickin' solution likely to be considered...
...framed smudges of color (in David's private washroom, there is a Cézanne lithograph). Few Chase executives try to understand their boss's artistic acquisitions, and his family does not share his tastes. Peggy and the children recently assembled a Rube Goldberg statue from pipes, wrenches, tubes and scrap metal and presented it to David in all solemnity as their own latest artistic find. Tolerant of the teasing, David defends his selections: "They might not mean anything to you now, but if you look at them for three or four days, you will find them very soothing...
...York City, where seven dailies scrap for the summer reader's indifferent eye, the news dearth becomes even more crucial. The World-Telegram launched listless crusades against pigeons (they carry lice and disease) and buses (the service is lousy). Amid a welter of daily stories about the Monroe suicide, Hearst's Journal-American still found two pages on which to reproduce a dozen letters that former U.S. President Herbert Hoover got from children. One desperate day, the Herald Tribune, which has been running a daily picture of unrepaired potholes in New York streets, abruptly shifted this feature onto...
Dillinger & the Pope. Sack got into the theater business by accident. The son of immigrant Russian Jews, Sack owned four meat markets by the time he was 19, lost them at 20 when the Depression hit. Turning to a truck driver's job with a scrap-metal firm owned by his in-laws, he soon wound up owning the company and by World War II was a happy "junkman" grossing $15 million annually...
...servant to preside over the projected liquidation of the Queen's empire (Kenya. Uganda, the West Indies). He has great ability, but usually fails to work hard in fields that do not interest him; economics interests him very much. The big question: whether, through Maudling, Macmillan intends to scrap Selwyn Lloyd's line and move toward inflation ("reflation." as it is currently known in Britain); or whether, in the midst of the crucial negotiations for Britain's entry into the Common Market, he will try to keep to his anti-inflationary policies, merely putting a more amiable...