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...appliance industry nearly outwitted itself a few years back: it so successfully stocked the American home with its basic wares that it faced a vir tually saturated market. It is no longer worried. Appliance makers have opened a new future for themselves with a generation of small appliances that perform tasks most people have been doing by muscle power: electric toothbrushes, shoe polishers, slicing knives, hairbrushes, drink mixers. Sales of small appliances have been rising 18 times faster than those of major appliances, and 250 companies are competing for an anticipated $1.5 billion in sales this year. Last week Chicago...
Throttling the Press. As a leading member of the lower house of the Vir ginia legislature during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson supported a loyalty oath requiring all males over 16 to swear aliegiance to the state. Those refusing were forced to pay triple taxes and stripped of their civil rights. He also helped pass a bill to round up Tories and ship them to designated areas in the interior. He drafted a bill of attainder-which in effect condemns the victim without a trial-against a group of Tories who were plundering the countryside...
Major new investments in the chemical industry are sure to force a cutback in consumer production, housing, possibly defense; but the situation on Russian farms warrants it. Yields this year have been poor in the Ukraine and Siberia. Last week the administrator for the Vir gin Lands, Khrushchev's pet farm project, openly admitted disaster in his regions as well, citing staggering examples of mismanagement and inefficiency...
...tone, passionate but restrained, using poetry as both a special ceremony and a daily occurrence. Ironically, to a great many of Britain's younger poets, among them Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, D. J. Enright and Elizabeth Jennings -sometimes collectively known as "The Movement"-Graves's old-fashioned vir tues seem highly contemporary. Writes British Critic Walter Allen: "It is as though the world has caught up with Graves so that, mysteriously, he even appears as one of the young...
Actually, if religion is to become a key issue, it will probably be in West Vir ginia's two southernmost election districts (most of the state's 95,000 Catholics live in the four central and northern districts). "We don't expect the Bible Belt preachers to hold meetings and pledge their congregations against Kennedy as they did to Al Smith," said a politician last week, "and we don't expect crosses to be burned in the hinterland, but the preachers will be talking and so will their congregations." Humphrey's backers have already made...