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...Trim and persuasive as ever, former TV Huckstress Betty Furness, 51, now Special Assistant on Consumer Affairs, told how things looked from the other side of the fence in a speech to the American Marketing Association. "It may be revolutionary to suggest that the manufacturer or the marketer give the consumer the basic facts about the design-life of a product," said Betty, "but I believe it's his due. Why shouldn't the housewife know there are 'x' number of hours of service in her washing machine, or that the life expectancy of a toaster...
...encomium from Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. McConnell was directed at the man who is running the air war in Viet Nam: General William Wallace Momyer, 51. As commander of the Seventh Air Force and the "coordinating authority" for all air strikes by any service, the trim, soft-spoken Momyer (pronounced Moe-meyer) is the officer responsible not only for rolling the thunder over North Viet Nam but for directing all air operations in South Viet Nam in his role as deputy commander of MACV in Saigon. An Oklahoman who was a World War II fighter...
Means Committee. After much wrangling, the White House promised to trim $2.6 billion from what would have been spent in the current fiscal year, and Congress excised another $1.8 billion. It is possible that some tax increase will be voted next year. - Civil rights proposals ran aground for the second straight year. The Administration's omnibus measure proposed open housing, a ban on jury discrimination and protection for civil rights workers...
...increased Social Security benefits (House-Senate conferees proposed a 13% increase last week instead of the 15% proposed by Johnson), foreign aid (the Senate is seeking to restore more than half a billion dollars to the $2.1 billion House measure), and education (the Senate rejected moves to trim $2.5 billion from Johnson's threeyear, $14.5 billion school-aid program...
Maudie accepts the permanency of her alienation and returns home with the words: "Everyone is on their own." What sets Author Forster's trim, sparklingly clear little novel apart from other studies in loneliness is her attitude toward her central character. Though she is unsparing of Maudie, she also treats her with care and a humored understanding that demonstrates how it is-and why-that the loveless get by in the world...