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...back is Argus-eyed. I live in danger...
...before Fairchild's precipitous downturn, the Argus Research Corp. reported gloomily on the future of electronics stocks to 75 brokers and institutional investors. Not only were shares overpriced, but Argus reported that there was a hint of over-inventory. Advancing technology had cut the cost of making microcircuits, but the savings had not yet been passed along to customers; for weeks there had been suspicions of an impending price slash, which presumably would be reflected in lower earnings. Morning after the Argus report, a big mutual fund, with its own pessimistic conclusions about Fairchild, offered a block...
...largest grocery chain, gold and iron mines, newsprint factories, a satellite city and a chemical complex that makes everything from detergent to roofing shingles. Taylor started his career in the brewing business by taking over a struggling brewery from his grandfather, gradually built it into his huge Argus Corp. holding company by shrewd mergers and acquisitions. Nowadays, while he concentrates on other investments, he leaves Canadian Breweries in the hands of Ian R. Dowie, 56, its president...
...things to come. Even before the G.O.P. Convention in July, the sturdily Republican Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, which in more than 100 years has never supported a Democrat for President, announced that it "could not and would not" support Goldwater. In Vermont, the jointly owned Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus and the Rutland Herald declared last week for Johnson, despite an unblemished allegiance to Republican presidential nominees that goes back to Abraham Lincoln...
Bananas on His Head. The five young Britons who threw the party denied that the song had been sung, claimed that their party was harmless tomfoolery. But despite their protestations, Uganda was in an ugly mood. The manager of the Uganda Argus, who had not even attended the party, was abducted by nine angry Africans and marched through Kampala's marketplace carrying a bunch of bananas on his head...