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...mission to "monitor" prices but no authority to order rollbacks, the council seemed pusillanimous in its first effort of consequence: an unsuccessful attempt to jawbone big price reductions from sugar refiners early in December. But last week the council made a modest comeback. It got U.S. Steel to trim its recent price increases and pledge publicly to do its best to impose no new ones for at least six months...
Neon Sign. Now 61 and a man without a party, McCall will leave the statehouse on Jan. 13. His future is as misty as the Willamette Valley at dawn. He underwent two cancer operations in 1973, but still appears healthy and trim at 6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs. Last week McCall was being mentioned as a potential recruit for the Ford Administration. In addition, McCall has been offered a college presidency and a professorship in communications (he was a newspaper and television newsman for 25 years before being elected secretary of state in 1964). But the prospect he talks...
...simply Henry Higgins 18 years older. His nasal drawl, his lounge-lizard posture, his Swiss-clock comic timing are on superb display. Harris matches him. She seems to have discovered the secret that eluded Ponce de Leon. With each passingplay, she appears more youthful -her face lineless, her figure trim, her carriage gracefully girlish. In acting subservient to her husband while deftly stage-managing everything, she strongly recalls those '30s heroines of S.N. Behrman's comedies who used to be played by Ina Claire or Katharine Cornell. Harrison and Harris salvage Rattigan, who, though famed for his theatrical...
...joint administration that operates under the authority of the other two. When the French moved to new hilltop offices in the capital of Port Vila Oust Vila to the British), it was discovered that the Tricolor was flying higher than the Union Jack, and so the French had to trim their flagpole. Out of such contretemps, the condominium acquired the nickname of Pandemonium...
TIME Soundings found that Americans generally want to stop selling wheat to the Soviet Union (57% agree that sales should be stopped v. 14% opposed), trim foreign aid even to friendly nations (38% v. 17%), loosen up credit (44% v. 24%), bring back wage and price controls (35% v. 26%) and cut defense spending (35% v. 28%). On at least one point, the public seems to agree with Ford. By 34% to 27%, those polled were willing to give some tax incentives to business-even though many blame big business for inflation-if the incentives would improve the economy...