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...this casserole of gossip were some tiny chunks of fact: the royal couple had not been together since mid-October when the Duke went on cruise; no royal child has been born since Elizabeth became Queen. In the teeth of the storm, royal spokesmen issued a firm denial of any rift between the Queen and her consort. This week Elizabeth plans to fly to Lisbon to join her husband for two days before they pay a state visit to Portugal. Soon the headlines were foreseeing a second honeymoon. In preparation the Duke shaved off the reddish, roguish beard...
...steel, the same apparently conflicting statistics were evident. Steel scrap prices tumbled $8 to $12 a ton, the sharpest drop in years, and production last week in the nation's mills slipped slightly to 97.1% of capacity. Nevertheless, the industry's spokesmen stood firm on their previous estimates that 1957 will be a good year. Said Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace: "The industry is in a better position than at any time in its history. I don't think there's a person in the steel industry who doesn't think operations...
John Massena, one of the workers, argued that percentage pay raises were unfair for the beginning workers and that the proposed $500 ceiling on salary increases was unrealistic since few few if any city employees earned salaries this high. He and other spokesmen asked the Council to pass an order endorsing the $440 figure...
...barrier to our trade with friendly nations"-and especially with nations whose "economic strength is of strategic importance to us." Moreover, "I am not persuaded that [the tariff hike] would constitute a sound step in resolving [the domestic industry's] difficulties"-at the heart of which, Administration spokesmen have pointed out, are declining U.S. catches caused by such made-in-the-U.S. problems as overfishing in local waters and aging vessels...
...sponsorship of the phony Moscow-did-it line might harm U.S. prestige just when that prestige was needed to get the Suez Canal running again. In Washington the State Department quickly announced that Dillon "was expressing his personal views in answer to a question"; privately State's exasperated spokesmen predicted that Soviet propaganda would make much of Dillon's blunder...