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* EXPERTS TELL WHAT'S IN STORE FOR ‘ FOREIGN AFFAIRS jeompatible system advocated by|word for 1954. For churches around |1954, another political year, will be)34 billion dcllars. This is a govern-ers) probably will grow to about THEATER {BUSINESS » Barring an unforeseen war, a the former finally winning out. |the world, it means working to-\no exception. |ment forecast. | further pooling of Western Euro- E. Butterfie'd (gether. — pean interests through establish- AVIATION | The climactic event of 1954 will ment of supranational organiza- You can expect the first flight/be the Assembly of the World Coun-| tions and the rearmament of West- of the first U. S, built jet trans-'cil of Churches, to be held in Aug: ern Germany and Japan will be port in 1954. ust.in Evanston, Ill. i the most far-reaching world events Boeing Airplane Co. expects by Sponsors justifiably claim it will of 1954. midyear to fly its first model. Of- my = a =e as i . ficially it’s designed as a jet tank- { ph. ey Seong tips er for the refueling of BS2s, B47s the first assembly of the global) offensive increases the evidence and fast jet fighters. \chureh organization since its found- that these ups and downs are tac- -Most American buyers have ing in Holland in 1948. | tical, without any bearing on Rus- turned thumbs down on the Brit- But the assembly — and the sia’s fundamental policy. ish jet Comet, flying on foreign|growth of church cooperation—will’ Other problems likely to be set- ted: Trieste, Anglo - Egyptian dispute over Suez, Anglo Iranian oil, French relations with Indochinese states, American - European trade policy. half, as too small and too costly,/troversy and criticism. At issue) Lockheed and Douglas are working will be the matter of delegates) on jet. transport projects too, and from Iron Curtain countries. 2 | may have something to show in| Already, a small fundamentalist) 954, jgroup, led by Rev. Carl Mcintire, The Air Force plans to inaugu-\of Collingswood, N. J., has chal-| i {rate its 1,000 - mile - long guided lenged the meeting “on this basis,/ Problems unlikely to be settled: missile range from Florida’s Cape charging major church leaders Indochina, any East - West is-\conaveral to Puerto Rico 'n the with Marxist sympathies. ; sue, Middle East, India - Pakistan, coming year. And the first Martin) If he follows past practice, he Anglo - American split over China's stador guided missile unit is to will call a meeting of the body he| trade, Korea, arms controls. be sent to Europe. |heads, the International Council of} | The AFL and CIO enter the ‘new something like this: routes for the past year and a not be without the attendant con-ljino pact, each promising {BUILDING it are 117 wings by the latter half of President Eisenhower has pro-|Plans now on the drawing boards. 1954. — Elton C. Fay mised to outline proposals to Con-| —D. Bareuther science gress in January for revising T-H. MILITARY | Signs point to some relaxing of Whatever be recommends is bound “What is in store for the Ameri-'government monopoly of atomic to touch off controversy. Manage- can armed forces in 1954 depends energy in 1954, giving private in- ment would rather leave the law entirely on what plans the Coni-'qustry a green light to belp de- unchanged — or make it tougher munist camp has for the year. velop atomic-electric power. on the age The unions want | If international conditions re- The great expectation is that the peeemed — * eey maim static, the picture will look! Vouid have to be altered first. Pro- = . posals for this, and.debate, should etre al meee come before the next Congress. sent organizational strengtn of 29 The great expectationis that the Rot to divisions plus enough regimental [¢¥ Polio vaccine to be given to seize the other’s already - organiz-| combat units to equal the strength nearly a million schoo! children ed members. —Norman Walker combat units ot equal the strength | Will fulfil early promise, safely lof six more divisions. and effectively protecting against ion of all kinds will con-| The Navy will continue to oper- Polio. Look also for announcement year moving slowly in the direc- tion of their long-sought merger. ‘They have agreed to a “no-raid- jtimue at a high rate. Any changesjate an average of 405 combatant °f other vaccines, prepared by dif- in volume from the 1953 level are| ships. ferent methods, which would be as expected to be no more than 2or3! The Air Force which finished fective or even better. per cent less, |1953 with about 105 effective wings| Fully predictable: A total eclipse The nation’s total outlay for newjof plans ( a wing varies in size/of the sun June 30. buildings again will range around|from 75 fighters to 30 heavy bomb-| — Alton L. Blakeslee Both musical comedies and ser. Caution is out-talking cockiness ious blank verse drama are fore-|a5 business squares away: for a cast for the new Broadway theatre New year. Those who think the ad- season which will get under way justment to normal times-from the in February, Korean boom is goitg tote’ piece- Two promising early openings, meal one, count these blessings as however, will take place in late new year starts: January when Henry Fonda ap-) comes are high— both indivi pears in “The Caine Mutiny Court/dually and in national tots. Say. Martial” and when Annabella ar- os are mere i standards " “ Chari Cay London) vere never hig! - “ha in “Dear Charles,” a |"It Americans: go 68 Stfying: at 2 a ‘i jnormal rate, 1954 will bea good “The Confidential Clerk,” and| as et that doers which will have a notable cast), ahaa es oe = oe = headed by Ina Claire and Claude|‘®¢ middle-of-the-roaders mre Rains is an inventory readjustment in the An impressive musical comedy|{i?st half of = like aig with opening will be “By The Beauti- businessmen living. off | stocks ful Sea” with Shirley Booth playing bse pie tists back = geal |the starring role. Herbert and Do-/"" order up oe if rothy Fields are writing the book aSem Dawoon ‘and Arthur Schwartz is composing THE KEY WOST CITIZEN the music. ? —Mark Barron |Tyesday, December 29, 1953Page oe ee ate eis tasaee Us —Vern Haugland (Christian Churches, at about the a aid Fag Aven will sets |same time as the world assembly make larger military contributions. me . thatito try to offset it. Houl ose ee Rare a locke die the "i050 sehaneet in| Further repercussions, echoing — \books, music, ballet and art. |1953's furore about alleged Reds in Movies in 1954 will be bigger and) The Metropolitan Opera was still|the pulpit and the churches’ re- better than ever, They have to be.' short of money, the front corners/actions to such probes, are indi- Else color television could deliver of concert halls were often empty,|cated. the knockout blow to a movie in-'the publishers complained of a| —George Cornell dustry already on the ropes from waning interest in books, ballet COMMUNISTS ordinary TV. business seemed spotty. But the) Nineteen fifty-three went down in The moviemakers are geared to yet will still go on, music will be Soviet history as the end of the meet coior TV head-on in "S4. heard, books published, and danc-|Stalin era and the beginning of a Studio overhead is pared to theier will dance. ,-.barring unfore-new one — as yet unnamed, bone, Excess personnel already|seen calamities. Nineteen fifty-four begins with bas gotten the ax, | Premier Georgi Maienkov seeming- —W, G. Rogers Movies will be fewer. ly firmly in control in Russia. and | |pouitics o ‘a . - = aes {TRL PURE The only thing that could put; Hollywood back on its onetime mass production schedule would be pay-as-you-watch television. | CinemaScope is the apparent! winner. among the various wide! screen proceses. Most of the major) studios have scheduled their 1954 output for that medium, | Adolph Zukor, who doesn’t have Marilyn Monroe under contract, sees her as the salvation of the! movie industry. | “Sex will make a comeback in the Marilyn Monroe Epoch of mov- Prices and “pinks’’—cost of liv- engaged in implementing a pro- ing and Communists—are going to|gtam of “‘peace and plenty” for be big political talking, points next/the peoples of the Soviet Union. year when the Democrats and the GOP battle it out for control of} Congress. If the past is key to the future, the Democrats have a good chance of riding back into power in Senate;mean peace. and House, The party division is| almost even now, and it is more or! less true that the party which wins a presidential election loses some! Congressional seats two year lat- er. iemaking to: keep our industry! ‘Top Republican are counting alive,” says Zukor. And he' years old, —James Bacon |munists - in - government issue EDUCATION 5) |to overcome this in 1954. The crest of the pupil flood will} Democrats are getting set to begin to hit American schools in/bear down on the pocketbook pinch’ the fall of 1954. Enrollment in the and what they claim are broken first grade will reach its peak) Republican campaign promises, then, High schools will tatch the} Living costs have hit record crest in 1962, colleges in 1966, highs several times The U. S. Office of Education|months, yet prices of farm pro- yand the National Education As-|ducts haven’t kept pace. Regard- sociation expect 50,000 new class- less Of what new farm program rooms to be built in 1954, as many|the Eisenhower administration as were built in 1953. But even|turns up with, Congress appears at that rate, school construction | bent en voting to keep high, rigid won't catch up. \price supports for farmers. States will make whatever ad-| The administration, furthermore, ‘Justments they deem proper as a now concedes it can’t balance the Tesult of Supreme Court action on | budget in the fiscal year beginning the school segregation issue, \July 1, 1954. It faces the embar- —Clarke Beach (rassing prospect of having to ask |Congress to boost the 275 - billion. ‘dollar limit on the national debt. —Douglas B, Cornell PRODUCTION Ahead of the automobile industry lies a year of competition the like ” ;, SURE THINGS? of whieh it h e J & decade raipoag tll cals ‘5 Among things most likely to hap- That’s the ‘appraisal of one ot |For fe ie a, million sphodl. chil: the auto industry's leding manu-|°Te? W! be injected with ums facturers. At the same time he as. *0bulin or polio vaccine; aircraft serts the 1954 market can call for _ be’. faster -* and look: more production of five million or more streamlined ; bathing suits will be cars, (The .1953 volume has been akimpler ‘but Shere wal be ew authoritatively figured at 6,200,- complaints; machinery ‘will turn 000 units.) out more machinery. 5 80 heavily on President Eisenhower's/duction and sale of goods for Sov- personal popularity and the Com- jet consumers: and for alleviating in recent'/kov will very probably kave his The world outside Russia, skep- tical of Soviet intentions, is still waiting to be convinced by deeds as distinct from words that Malen-| kov and his government really does In August Malenkov announced that the Soviety Union possessed the hydrogen bomb and then ex- ploded one a few days later to prove it. At the same tine he made public his program for increasing the pro- the position of the Soviet farmer while at the same time increasing food production. Malenkov in 1954 will probably seek better relations in particular with Britain and France, Inside the Soviet Union. Malen- hands full merely fulfilling the pro- mises made to the people in 1953 for increased living standards. One thing seems certain — that Russia under Malenkov, as under Stalin, will continue to be a totali- tarian regime and arderily Com- munist, — Tom Whitney FARM The farmer and his problems are likely to play feature roles in the 1954 national scene. The Eisenhower administration and Congress are preparing to give an uneasy agricultural situation \top billing over other domestic problems, A sharp decline in ex- port markets and accumulated |farm prices and income to raise} the threat of a possible agricultural | | depression. | Acting for the administration, | Secretary of Agriculture Benson jhas promised to submit a new! |farm program that would depend For the 1954 sales campaigns the amen industry has new models that em- phasize styling, color and engineer. inga dvances, will be up to? Who ¢an predict what the ladies | less on government subsidies, price} | Supports and controls than does the It seems reasonably certain how-/ present program. It would place eB ‘ vit STANDARD A N ow available! ever sold by Standard Oil Company Because of the competition for ®ve" that more of-them will work) greater emphasis on measures de- buyer preference, most of the in- °¢. ¥° jobs — homemaking and signed to regain lost overseas mar- dustry analysts say downward DTinging home the bacon for the kets. price revisions are likely, —David J, Wilkie RADIO.TV Color in television may not have family larder. More than half of the 19 million working women in the country are married, although less than 1 per cent of them make more than $5,000 a year. @ very big audience In 1954, but! Business, industry 5 siness, stry and iti ergo another Christmas it wil! attract more and more: sig s weil on its way men who find that wond Two networks, NBC ; egal roeary and CBS, in the home give them greater lel- already are equipped for color sure and that spare time may be transmission and are expected to rewarded in the working world, be the most active in presenting —Vivian Brown tinted shows, They also were the RELIGION Principals in the color fight, the “Ecumenical” is the religious Benson's ideas face bitter op- Position, Should Congress reject Benson’s recommendations, he might step aside as farm chief to allow the President to name a successor in ‘sympathy with Congressional views. — Ovid Martin | LABOR Never since the Taft-Hartley 1a-| jbor relations law was enacted in| 1947 has a year gone by without |bitter political scrapping over mov-| es to change its terms. 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