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...cool because state unemployment-compensation treasuries, constantly replenished by payroll taxes, are still well filled. With a record $320 million drain in February, the total pool decreased by only $173 million, leaving a huge balance of $8.2 billion. Despite gubernatorial coolness, the Administration will probably move ahead with some sort of plan expanding unemployment compensation. At the same time, it will continue speeding the flow of federal money into the economy. Last week the President ordered Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert Cole to speed up the spending and lending of about $650 million in funds already appropriated for public...
Behind the wild stories were these ascertainable facts: Saud and his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, are divided over Feisal's insistence on coming to some sort of terms with Nasser's new union. Arrests have been made, including at least one royal prince. Saudi Arabia has turned away all reporters at its borders for the last two weeks...
Viscount Hailsham, Tory leader in the House of Lords and sometime (1929) president of the Oxford Union, sternly denounced this sort of "government by undergraduate resolution," compared it to the pacifist days of 1933 when the Union overwhelmingly voted that "this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country." As for the suggestion that Britain should unilaterally forswear atomic weapons, he pointed out that only the U.S. and Russia are major atomic powers. "When you are running third in a race, you cannot, by giving up, give what is called a moral lead...
Away from the chessboard, Bobby barely tolerates the world around him. An indifferent sophomore at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High, he professes a certain interest in astronomy, prehistoric animals, hypnotism-"all that sort of stuff"-but admits to no urge toward higher education or any aspiration but more chess. To the annoyance of his sponsors at the Manhattan Chess Club, he has turned up his nose at the club tournament. Now that he is in the big time, Bobby can't be bothered. Winning the U.S. title makes him eligible for the interzonal finals this summer in Yugoslavia...
Saddle the Wind (MGM) is a not altogether successful attempt to mingle culture and coyotes. The culture is provided by John Cassavetes, a Stanislavsky-type buckaroo who looks sort of lost in all those wide-open spaces...