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...reduce domestic demand by $1.4 billion and substantially trim overseas expenditures. In addition to a voluntary freeze on all wages, prices and dividends for the next six months and for "great restraint" for the half-year after that, Wilson...
...Enjoy Helping." Nina Jo Schmale, 21, queen of the nurses' spring dance, was engaged to a high school sweetheart, proudly kept in her room a sign post for "Schmale Rd.," named for her Wheaton, Ill., family. A trim champion swimmer, member of her high school water-ballet team, and engaged to a male nursing student in Chicago, native Chicagoan Patricia Ann Matusek, 21, learned on the day of the murders that she had been accepted as a staff member at the city's Children's Memorial Hospital. In her application she had written: "Ever since...
...trim 190 Ibs., Ted Etherington looks like central casting's image of a dynamic businessman. Son of a New York public accountant, he graduated from Wesleyan in 1948, taught English there for a year, then went on to Yale Law School. Etherington served for a year as clerk to a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, later went to work for a Wall Street law firm that specialized in investment problems. Eventually he moved on to serve as secretary and vice president of the Big Board under Funston. He was named head of Amex...
...long-running performance had left him "bushed and broke." AID, by contrast, is in surprisingly good shape. In the face of persistent Congressional assaults on the program, Bell, a Harvard-trained economist who was summoned to Washington in 1961 as President Kennedy's first budget director, helped trim the fat by rejecting the notion of aid as "a worldwide welfare program" and insisting on "self-help...
Lately, prosperity has begun to trim profit margins. Wages for the Gli Insabbiati are gradually rising; an Italian engineer abroad earns about $10,000 yearly in wages and fringes, a truck driver about $5,000. Moving beyond Africa also means higher costs for employers. Not the least of the problems is that the contractors stand to lose many of the hard-working desert veterans, who have a habit of settling where the job takes them. Cogefar, another Milan company, is about to begin a $56 million tunnel-boring job for a hydroelectric plant on New Zealand's Tongariro River...