Editorial: Consumer Holds Key to 1962 Economy
The piece argues consumer sentiment will determine whether 1962 is good or excellent for business. It notes Michigan survey optimism, rising auto sales with weekly output around 140,000 and over 1.5 million cars this year, but declines in housing starts and appliance purchases. It cites factory price cuts, nylon fabric price rises, steel output gains, a Pacific shipping strike, and Hawaii rationing as mixed indicators of the economy’s near-term path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Michigan Research Center
Census Bureau
Federal Reserve Board
the Nations Retail Merchants Association
General Motors Corp
Frigidaire
General Electric Co
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Labor Department
Hawaii
Water dispute Over Jordan River Sparks Arab Israeli Tension
Syrians and Arabs warn against Israeli diversions of Sea of Galilee water to irrigate the Negev as a $100 million plan aims to move Jordan Valley flows south. United States backs a prior 61 39 split but progress stalled. Israel proceeds with pumping and piping to the Negev, raising regional security fears.
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Damascus
Syria
Sea of Galilee
Holy
Jordan River
Jordan
Negev Desert
Galilee
Israel
Syrian
Middle East
Judean
Jerusalem
Ammanib
Sea of
Rne Israeli
Lake Tibering
Galilean Hills
Negev
Unclear OCR item from Baytown Sun notice
Fragmentary text from Baytown Sun references a government act and billing rates. No clear names, dates, or concrete actions readable.
French Heavyweight Champion The Business Forecast
AP Business News Analyst Sam Dawson reviews mixed January and February data showing declines in industrial output and personal income alongside gains in auto sales and durable goods orders. Weather and belt-tightening affect figures. housing starts slip in most regions. business failures rise 13 percent in January. Police scene ends with an injured Memphis officer after testing a firecracker on a suspect item.
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Sam Dawson
AP Business News
NEW York
Federal Reserve Board
Hore
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf and Straley satire
The piece humorously rewrites a stockbroker tale with a tailor quip about tapes and a dirigible brokerage dream above Wall Street. It also parodies geese descriptions by an 8 year old nature lover, noting ganders curls and the preference to be a gander.
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Bennett Cerf
Ohn Straley
Eric Heyn
Notable espionage case linked to a Brooklyn photographer
A Brooklyn photographer posed as a journalist to run a Russian spy ring. In 1957 A B agent closed in and 55 he faced a 30 year sentence. The defendant, the highest ranking Russian ever tried in the U S, was later freed in a prisoner exchange for UTM pict Francia Grey Powers.
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Quarttra
Brooklyn
A. B. Agente
Grey Powers
American grad student held by East German authorities
The article notes a 28 year old American graduate student born in Owosso Michigan who studied chemistry at Oberlin and Yale, captured while researching Communist foreign trade, and held by East German authorities in Berlin last August. It adds a brief trivia item about Walt Whitman’s death and a series of unclear quiz lines.
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Berlin
Owosso
Mich
Mansfield
Oberlin
Yale
Whalley payroll prompts questions on staff in Washin
Washington report highlights Congressman J Irving Whalley of Windber Pa as paying about 30000 yearly in taxpayers money to workers who rarely serve in Washington. Editors and local officials on his payroll include Olin Horton Clark Rodger Robert Evans Alvin Walker and Gilda Leski. The piece notes their duties and questions whether funds serve constituents or promote reelection. It also covers Gen Curtis Le May clashing with Defense on the B 70 bomber and the Army secretly recruiting volunteers in Korea for South Vietnam.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
J. Irving Whalley
Windber
U. S
Pennsylvania
GOP
Whalley
House of Representatives
Dick Simpson
Congress
Uncle Sam
Olin Horton
Broadtop Bulletin
Saxton, Pa
Clark W. Rodger
Hooversville
Somersetty
Robert A. Evans
Franklin County
Alvin C. Walker
Snyder County
Gilda Leski
Air Force
McNamara
le May
Lelay
Numory
Everywhere By HAL BOYLE
New York AP column by HAL Boyle surveys light anecdotes and trivia. It highlights office plant choices, dental chatter, rapid population growth, car usage, music tastes in Japan, quotes about New York, anonymous letters, belly dancers contracts, medical salaries, astrology reach, late news habits, a Washington presidency trivia, and Wilde on romance.
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New York
British Dental Association
Costa Rica
Red
China
Mexico
Tokyo
Don Herold
Nave
America
Henry
Lascoe
U.S
Washington, D.C
George Washington
New York City
Philadelphia
Zim
Oscar Wilde
Isaiah 53 6 theme verse on atonement and obedience
A biblical verse notes all humanity strays from the path and each bears collective iniquity, while divine justice and mercy converge in the suffering servant motif for redemption.
Rawhide Stars Visit Tokyo Clash With Local Fans
Clint and Eric Fleming, stars of the CBS Rawhide series, arrived in Tokyo to wild fanfare. They faced startled police, left shooting irons in customs, and noted intelligent Japanese questions while expressing hopes to return. They described Japan as pacifist and pledged that trips could help win friends for America despite an ugly incident with rowdy American tourists.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Rustywood
Eric Fleming
CBS
Rawhide
Japan
Clint
Tokyo
Akes
Eric
England
Sweden
West Germany
Lebanon
Australia
South America
Blind spot hand puzzles top European experts in bridge
In a 1980s Italian tournament deal, North South declarer Micael Giovine faced a six spade contract and went one down. Many European stars failed to find the winning line until Frits Goudsmidt of Holland discovered it, revealing the self evident play: ruff hearts, cash clubs A K, discard jack hearts, ruff clubs with ace of spades, then repeat. The line succeeds as long as clubs divide 8 2 and spades 2 2 or 3 1.
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King of Hearts
Italy
Micael Giovine
Giovine
Jean Besse
Besse
Roger Trezel
Pierre Jais
Adam Meredith
Besw
Frits
Goudsmidt
Holland
South
Grey Symitcate
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