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...gates of Russia slightly ajar to tourists three years ago, they were amazed at the flood of tourists that flocked in to see for themselves (150,000 last year). But they were shocked to discover that their Western visitors considered their best hotels none too good, and their second-best downright deplorable. The rooms were stuffy, the beds hard, the service sluggish, and there were no stoppers for the bathtubs, grumbled the European and U.S. visitors...
...telling in the first place. Plot: Hollywood has-been (Dailey) can't find money or nerve to make picture. Loyal stooge (Cantinflas) wins money at Las Vegas. Heroine (Jones) supplies nerve. Picture is hit. Boy gets girl. Cantinflas gets horse-a pretty white stallion, which turns in the second-best performance in the picture. Cantinflas turns in the best...
...auto industry tooled down the last lap of its second-best year in history, the annual numbers game of forecasting 1961's production and sales was in full swing-with automen taking the high road and Washington economists the low road...
...even more spotty. A survey of retail trade by Standard & Poor's showed retail sales up 2% over last year for the first nine months, with a 3.8% gain in nondurable goods and a 1.5% loss in durables. Chain-store sales were up 5.4% in September for the second-best gain of the year, and Kresge's reported a 4.5% September sales jump over August for the best September in the company's history. Said Kresge President Harry B. Cunningham: "If we're in a slump, we certainly are working our way out. The pessimistic talk...
...Polaris fleet that will run up a bill as large as the entire budget for the Strategic Air Command. But it was a cold war bargain. "It is not nearly so expensive," says Red Raborn proudly, "as a weapon that would not be pre-eminent in war. The second-best weapon is the one that costs too much." Last week there were few to argue that Polaris was second best...