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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A tarnished film queen, Shelley Winters, flips over a couple of surfers who plan to hang ten over her $3,000,000 jewel collection in "Wipe-out." Repeat...
...moderate" Negro leaders, they have come up with proposals that only recently might have struck many Americans as most immoderate. One such scheme is A. Philip Randolph's "Freedom Budget," originally proposed two years ago. It would wipe out the ghettos, provide a guaranteed annual income, increase spending on education, housing, vocational training and health services. The price tag: $185 billion over a ten-year period...
...Poisons. For all their misdeeds, rats are not really to blame. It is man who is at fault. "If we could only get people to keep the lids tight on metal garbage containers," says Clarence W. Travis of the District of Colum bia's Health Department, "we could wipe out the rats in six months. We put poison down in the alleys and distribute free poison to people in blighted areas, but they leave so much juicy, greasy garbage around that the rats pay no attention to the poison...
Troubled Allies. The planned withdrawal is as much due to Britain's strict austerity drive-initiated a year ago-as it is to De Gaulle. The British are having a hard time trying to wipe out their foreign-trade deficit and shore up the pound, which last week was shakier than it has been for a year, partly because of trade losses stemming from the war in the Middle East. Thus, the $384 million that Britain paid last year for the upkeep of bases outside Europe looked like a luxury. Healey intends to cut this figure to about...
...British and West German shipping will still deprive the government of $1,000,000 a week in tolls. Then there is cotton, Egypt's second biggest foreign-exchange earner after the canal. Because there is no money to spare for urgently needed insecticides, leafworms threaten to wipe out 30% of this year's crop. In desperation, the government sent almost 500,000 schoolchildren into the fields last week to pick leafworms off the plants. "We have yet another aggression on our hands," noted Cairo's weekly Rose Al Youssef wryly. "We must mobilize...