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...discipline and austerity that were needed. The gestures helped-only eight months ago economists were predicting total economic collapse. But gestures are far from enough. Japan needs an austerity at least as stringent as Britain and West Germany went through, and it needs a leader whose government will tug at the belt until it bends the very national backbone...
...Tug of Left & Right. Since Schumacher's death, a band of progressive reformers on the Socialist right wing have sought to change the party's ways. Led by able, French-born Professor Carlo Schmid, a potbellied b&n vivant, the reformers want the SPD to junk 1) its aging bureaucrats, and 2) its Marxist jargon. The party, says Schmid, should move to the right so as to attract the votes of small shopkeepers and professional...
...electronic "brains," again proved that he is the best of the new TV comics; Lauren Bacall and David Niven co-starred in a surprisingly successful adaptation of Irwin Shaw's memorable short story, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, while Helen Hayes and Thomas Mitchell gave a professional tug to viewers' heartstrings in a Max Shulman playlet. The show closed with a well-staged and effective few words from President Eisenhower. Jubilee was easily the best single TV program since the Ford anniversary program of last year starring Mary Martin and Ethel Merman...
...taxes by $7.4 billion-the "largest tax reduction in history." The U.S. has been given "the strongest armed forces in our peacetime history" for less money. The Government has stopped roasting coffee, baking bread and making paint. It has stopped running a hotel. It has stopped running a tug and barge business on the inland waterways. It "has been returning to private citizens activities traditionally theirs...
...foot octopuses. Once Burford was manning the airline on board ship when another diver in the water below rashly tried to spear an octopus. A hairy tentacle shot out, and for three hours the diver (Scotty Evans by name) was caught 70 feet down in an inhuman tug-of-war between the octopus, which tried to drag him down, and Burford, who tried to haul him up. Finally, at the risk of splitting Evans in two, Burford started the boat to pull Evans loose. Then "the ugly, pear-shaped body of a giant octopus [appeared]. He was perched atop...