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Reason for the softening of demands was that the automakers had rallied as never before to put up a united front against the U.A.W. Furthermore, Reuther himself conceded that to strike now "would be insane" because dealers have a two-month backlog of unsold new cars. Instead, Reuther wanted to stretch out the contracts week by week, hoping to stall until the 1959 models start to roll out in September, when a strike threat might be heard more clearly...
After 45 years of turning out biting, broad-stroked drawings for the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 403,068), crusading Cartoonist Daniel R. (for Robert) Fitzpatrick this week started a two-month vacation of "fishing and unwinding." While Fitz is away, the P-D plans to rerun some of his old cartoons and tap the syndicated work of the Washington Post and Times Herald's Herblock, who has been carried every Saturday for the past few years. But the bulk of the daily cartoons will be handled by a newcomer: baby-faced Bill Mauldin...
...Last week Administration tax experts were already working over such ideas as a one-year repeal of certain excise taxes, e.g., halving the tax on new autos, thereby saving the buyer $100 or more a year.* And they also were making practice passes at some new ideas, e.g., a two-month forgiveness of withholding taxes that could instantly pump out $2.3 billion in spendable take-home pay, thus give the economy a quick extra surge of power...
...indeed a somber mood that hung over the U.S. Added to post-Sputnik uneasiness about the nation's technological lead over Russia was uneasiness about the economy. Total personal income in the U.S. had sagged in both September and October, the first two-month decline since the post-Korea recession of 1953-54, and most other economic indexes show signs of droop (see BUSINESS...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18--A two-month speedup in the date for launching the first full-fledged U.S. earth satellite was listed as a possibility by the Navy today. A spokesman said that, if the navy is successful with its 6.4-inch, 31/4-pound test satellite next month, the 20-inch sphere carrying complex instruments might be fired into orbit in January rather than March, as originally planned. Vanguard now possesses a higher priority than it did in the past--a development that has just occurred, the Navy man declared...