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Purring southward from Washington through a chill morning overcast, the presidential Constellation Columbine headed for Fort Benning, Ga., and landed. President Eisenhower and the First Lady, on their way to a six-day Thanksgiving vacation, had decided to pick up their son and his family at the Army camp where he is a battalion commander. Major John Eisenhower met the plane, but reminded his father of an old infantry tradition: a good officer eats holiday dinners with his men. He would stay until Thanksgiving afternoon, said the major. He bundled his wife Barbara, their three children and Skunky, their...
...Chicago, Sears Roebuck reported that its October sales were 7.8% below last year's. Said Chairman Robert E. Wood: "This unseasonable weather has caused a perceptible slump in many fall and winter lines." Montgomery Ward's sales were down 15.5%. In New York, where a six-day, eye-burning "smaze"* added to the buying apathy, the fur business was down 20%; oil companies cut prices of heating oils by ½? a gallon to boost lagging sales. Anthracite men noted sadly that their sales so far this year were down by about...
...After studying figures from behind the Iron Curtain, the National Planning Association announced that it was worried: the Soviet Union currently turns out an annual 30,000 engineers a year "from a five-year curriculum of six-day weeks and ten-month years." The U.S. output: only 23,000 engineers from a four-year, five-days-a-week course...
...Democratic Party's globe-trotting standardbearer, Adlai Stevenson, arrived in Saigon for a six-day visit through Indo-China, including a three-hour luncheon conference with Vietnamese Chief of State Bao Dai. Later, at a luncheon in Phat Diem, south of Hanoi, Stevenson found a gambit for his humor in the tablecloth, decorated with an elephant. His host, Catholic Bishop Le Huu Tu, quickly explained: the elephant on the tablecloth was a native beast, no relation to the Republican species...
...employment offices of the big retail outfits report they do not have enough men to fill their training program courses, and are having to go outside their companies t find the needed men. The most recent move t increase the attractiveness of the business has been elimination of the six-day working week. Yet knowledge that the free day will probably not come on Saturday has served to decrease the effectiveness of this move...