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...charge of delay for the Craig forces was a round, rollicking state senator named Roy Conrad of Monticello, who raises purebred Aberdeen Angus cattle. An expert in state political matters, Conrad put the slowdown on everywhere. He even changed his personal gait. From his seat near the back of the senate chamber to the microphone at the front, Conrad began to move at the pace of a tired Angus on a summer evening. Conrad was not tired; he had merely made a deal with Craig to block the Jennerite bill...
Long-overdue copies of 318, the College yearbook, will arrive in Cambridge by truck tomorrow morning. Held up since the originally scheduled release date of May 12 by a slowdown at the printers and binders, the book will be distributed in the House. Dudley, and the Union at lunch and dinner tomorrow...
...George Abbotty that even the workers' slowdown gives the effect of a speedup; it is all so well managed that even the fumbles seem something new in footwork. There are the kind of peppy dance numbers that suggest a cheerleaders' carnival, and there is a great deal of music with an infectious, elementary lilt. A long-legged, gaminlike newcomer named Carol Haney dances like a dervish and is generally fun; Eddie Foy Jr. softshoes nostalgically and is generally helpful. John Raitt and Janis Paige make an attractive, a melodious, even a positively believable pair of lovers...
TEXTILE SLUMP is getting more serious. Following slowdown announcements by Textron and J. P. Stevens & Co., six more big companies (among them: No. 1 synthetic producer Burlington Mills) are planning to shut down for one to two weeks, lay off 30,000 workers...
Last week the Administration announced a new policy for increasing stockpiles. It was a turnabout from the policy laid down only five months ago. Then, the Office of Defense Mobilization had ordered a slowdown in stockpile purchases on the ground that the piles were about big enough. What had happened since November to cause the switch...