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...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Sailor Sterling Hayden, home from the South Seas to straighten out his own marital tangle, stars in Ethan Frame, Edith Wharton's story of marital and extramarital troubles in 19th century New England. Costars: Julie Harris and Clarice Blackburn...
...Good evening, and welcome to another T.V.-side chat. I'm sure all of you are concerned with the un-American activities in our newest state. I assure you that my staff of machines has studied the matter closely and is convinced that a little Good Will can straighten out the Commonwealth of Cuba...
...Mathematical Physicist Charles Critchfield, 49, agreed to take over as boss of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (TIME, Nov. 16), he became the target for salvo after salvo of editorial and political criticism. Nobody seemed to doubt that he might be a good man to help straighten out the U.S.'s missile mess, but many were worried over how and by whom he would be paid while on the job. Reason: at Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's urging, Critchfield was to be a "WOC," serve "without compensation" from the U.S. and keep on drawing...
...solution. It's a problem that the news people will have to solve themselves. I have no right to decide what newsmen go with the President to Russia, and I don't want that right. That must be decided by the news media. But unless we straighten out this problem, we'll have nothing but chaos. And chaos can lead only to the weakening of our free press and our prestige...
...were arbitrarily cut to one-tenth of their value (though smaller bills were not changed); 90% of every bank deposit over 25,000 rupiahs was frozen, so that the money could be seized for obligatory long-term loans to the government, and banks were closed for two days to straighten out their accounts and report to the government. A new exchange rate of 45 rupiahs to the dollar was proclaimed. All this was done to the accompaniment of denunciations by Sukarno of "vulture capitalists." Added he: "Whoever scoops up wealth at the expense of the public, whoever disrupts the public...