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...Senator and ex-Governor James Duff: "The Leader tax program is sure enough a rock 'em, sock 'em plan, a regular Donnybrook Fair idea. When you look around to see who is getting hurt, you get socked right on the button yourself-more of a tax smack by hundreds of millions than was ever before proposed in Pennsylvania, most of it in direct violation of definite campaign pledges." But George Leader stood his ground. He snapped: "I have just begun to fight...
...economics at W111iams College, to succeed Samuel N. Stevens as seventh president of Iowa's Grinnell College. A graduate of the State College of Washington, Bowen has served as economist for both Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. and the U.S. Department of Commerce, in 1950 ran smack into a storm of controversy when, as dean of the college of commerce at the University of Illinois, he tried to liberalize his faculty and was finally forced to resign...
...loved the shot of Central Park, however ... I had to gape with horror at the enormous waste being perpetrated on our city in the name of beauty. Smack down the center of one of the most peopled, congested, dirtiest islands in the world is this huge chunk of valuable realty making no contribution to the city at all - 51 blocks long, several city blocks wide, just sitting majestic and very idle while the city is busting at its seams looking for solutions to its space problems . . . What an ideal spot for a huge parking...
Others found the going even worse. Two French teams, starting from Palermo, ran smack into an avalanche that piled six-foot snow drifts on the narrow Alpine roads. Drivers starting from Oslo and Stockholm shuddered through below-zero cold; inch-thick ice formed on windshields. British drivers leaving Glasgow fought snow, fog and black ice on roads that slowed them down so much that an unhappy few missed the boat from Dover to Boulogne...
...Video Theater. Host James Mason looks pained about it, but pluckily mentions Lux; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Adolphe Menjou smack their lips respectively over Rheingold and Schaefer beers; Jon Hall goes into ecstasies over Jay's potato chips; and Loretta Young apparently keeps a box of Tide on her grand piano. There are only a few holdouts, notably Sid Caesar who sticks strictly to his funny business...