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...deteriorated into a grimy morass of dilapidated warehouses, buildings and residences. Developers have been scrupulous in preserving the architectural monuments of the area-the old courthouse and the cathedral-and have stored the best examples of cast-iron storefronts to be put on display in the new Museum of Westward Expansion...
Died. Luang Pibul Songgram, 66, Thai strongman, who as Prime Minister from 1938 to 1941 and again from 1948 to 1957 changed the country's name from Siam to Thailand, turned it westward, or so he thought, with such Occidental laws as ordering men to kiss their wives before leaving for work each morning, ruled with a generally competent, militantly anti-Communist hand until a 1957 economic crisis led the Thai army to overthrow him; of a heart attack; in Tokyo...
...Steelmen say that they are penalized by bigness. Theirs is the only truly national steel company, with plants stretching westward to Pittsburg, Calif., and it often cannot change prices or products as rapidly as smaller but more profitable regional companies. At the same time, the corporation is among those most hurt by cut-price imports from Japan and Europe, for it is a major producer of the products most heavily imported-bars, wires, pipes. Many U.S. Steelmen also complain that Government harassment prevents them from expanding their markets or raising prices as high as they would like. The Government...
...caught it willy-nilly without the fun of a party. "It comes in waves, two to four years apart," said Chicago's Health Commissioner Samuel Andelman. "When it starts, it's like fire in straw." The fire had spread from New England, down the Eastern seaboard and westward to the Continental Divide. It has not yet hit the West Coast in full force. It will...
...business by moving from counterman to candymaker and finally, five years ago, to president. "I feel rather like Yogi Berra," says Sports Fan Johnson. "He says sure he can be a manager, because he does know a bit about baseball." Young Johnson will concentrate on spreading the chain westward (it now has 70% of its stores east of the Mississippi) and increasing sales of its canned and frozen foods...