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Steelman McDonald had hardly spoken before the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther topped him. The U.A.W. decided Reuther's executive board this week, will patriotically forget all about its plan for a shorter work week in 1958 negotiations. Instead U.A.W. will couple its new demands for wage increases with a novel program of profit-sharing for wage-earners. And just in case this might not bring him a big enough audience, Reuther was ready to propose (but not "demand") that automakers also share their profits-in the form of rebates-with their customers...
Neither the U.S. nor the U.S.S.R. has an operational 1,500-mile ballistic missile, but the Russians have an operational stockpile of several hundred shorter-range (800 to 1,200 miles) ballistic missiles deployed in more than 50 bases, with a range into Europe and the Far East. The U.S. Air Force is ahead of its schedule on developing its first IRBM, Douglas' liquid-fuel, 1,500-mile Thor. It has test-fired ten Thors, five successfully, two part-successfully, has a production line going, expects to deploy well upward of 20 Thors into Europe with "initial operational capability...
...from it. What Reuther and his fellow A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders called for as labor's 1958 platform was 1) higher wages, plus 2) "increased leisure" through shorter work weeks with no pay reduction, plus 3) bigger health, welfare and unemployment-benefit programs. In short: more pay, less work. When the economy was booming, Reuther had called for wage boosts to catch up with higher prices. Now, with the economy slumping, he called for wage boosts as the cure for a recession caused-in the official A.F.L.C.I.O. view-by a lack of purchasing power...
...total shutdown to Broca's area had lasted six minutes or more, Eisenhower would have lost the power of coherent speech; at normal blood heat, brain cells cannot survive longer than that without oxygen-bearing blood. Evidently the shutdown was incomplete or for a shorter period because, although the cells in Broca's area had been damaged, the damage was not severe: overnight the doctors observed improvement in the President's speech. Adequate blood flow to the oxygen-starved cells had been restored...
Harvard had wanted a program under which a few qualified graduate students at the thesis-writing stage and a senior member of the faculty would be exchanged for a year or a term with their Russian equivalents. The professors would probably stay for a shorter period of time than the students and might deliver six or eight lectures...