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...Waltz That Broke My Heart (Gisele MacKenzie; Vik). Songstress Mac-Kenzie is sitting this one out, she tells the listener in her clear, unshaded voice, because the last time she attempted the waltz, it cost her that man. Her syrup-slow beat suggests that sheer lack of energy may have done...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote a prescription last week for the general practitioners who keep Britain's socialized National Health Service running: a 5% increase in their pay. The doctors scoffed at it as merely soothing syrup, incapable of curing their deep-seated financial ills...
...After a word from the sponsor (Corn Products Refining Co.-salad oil, syrup, cornstarch, etc.), the Attorney General of the U.S. grasped his lectern mike, crisply reported that the Department of Justice was about to start a civil action under the antitrust laws against General Motors, charging it with "unlawful activities which have given it a monopolistic position in the manufacture of buses...
...unfair business practices cut the number of franchised dealers in the country, cars will not be serviced properly, and accident rates will soar. Said Executive Vice President Frederick J. Bell, a retired rear admiral who also serves N.A.D.A. as a public-relations expert: "We do not want soothing syrup. We want action, and we are going...
...handle the bill on the floor, Johnson picked Oklahoma's amiable Senator Mike Monroney, at whom nobody ever gets mad. Backing Monroney was Arkansas' syrup-toned Senator William Fulbright, who specializes in charm. In the background was Oklahoma's heavy-fisted, wrath-kindling Senator Robert Kerr, longtime champion of the gas producers...