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...surplus in the $78 billion budget in fiscal 1960 (ending next June 30). But if Senator Williams' findings were any indication of what goes on among federal purchasing agents, it seemed pretty clear that the surplus could have been a lot bigger with a few turns of the screw...
...well as ratings. The two major dramatic shows, CBS Playhouse 90 and NBC Sunday Showcase, are being crossed off the schedule for next season, as well as the muchballyhooed $15 million NBC Ford Star-time, which did some good drama (e.g., Ingrid Bergman in The Turn of the Screw, Alec Guinness in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deekes), but otherwise ran up an awesome string of flops. Many of the less ambitious series fared no better. A total of 55 shows will not return to the air next season, ranging from Love and Marriage to Bat Masterson, from Desilu Playhouse...
Busy Line. In Indianapolis, charged with burglary when police caught him taking a phone apart with hammer, screw driver, mallet and can opener, James H. Coleman explained: "I was just trying to recover a dime I lost...
...Turn of the Screw, brilliantly directed by John (Playhouse go) Frankenheimer and starring Ingrid Bergman. Actress Bergman ran a shuddering range of emotions, from schoolmotherly affection for two children placed in her care, to sheer terror of two black ghosts that possess the children, to cold determination to fight the dead and save the souls of the living...
...basic knowledge, may lead to bigger crops grown faster, and to control over harvesting times. "It's as if we had been hitting a carburetor with a hammer for years in an attempt to adjust it," says Dr. Hendricks. "Discovering this pigment is like learning that a screw on the bottom of the carburetor is what regulates...