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...Often what they regard as known facts turn out to be little more than guesses. "Most of the leading indicators [the economic statistics that are supposed to foreshadow general business trends] tend to be reported in a preliminary fashion and later revised on the basis of wider sampling," notes Beryl Sprinkel, vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "And the revisions can be extreme." Chairman
...administrative assistant to a protegee of Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts State Senator Beryl Cohen, Maryellen has on the wall above her desk a placard: HAPPINESS IS TED KENNEDY IN 1972. At the Chicago Convention last summer, the Democratic National Committee praised her as a "woman doer." In 1963, after she was graduated from Regis College in Weston, Mass., Maryellen decided to work in politics. "John Kennedy said that it was the only way to make things better, and that the whole world needed us," she says. Ted Kennedy recruited her to help in Bobby's presidential campaign-"A wild...
Married. Adam Clayton Powell III, 22, TV news-producer son of Harlem's high-rolling Congressman and Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott; and Beryl Gillespie Slocum, 26, socialite descendant of Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams; in an Episcopalian ceremony attended by both families; at St. Mary's Chapel in the Washington Cathedral...
...until now the results have been less severe. Last week the board's policy of "resolute restraint," as Chairman William McChesney Martin describes it, hit home so hard that many bankers concluded that another crisis is imminent. "This is certainly the worst credit squeeze since 1966," said Beryl Sprinkel, chief economist of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "The question is whether it will get as bad as 1966. We're moving very rapidly in that direction...
...fine young man." Thus did Mrs. John Slocum, a Newport and Washington, D.C., socialite and a direct descendant of Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams, describe her future son-in-law, Adam Clayton Powell III, a direct descendant of the high-rolling Harlem Congressman. The bride-to-be is Daughter Beryl, 26, a Radcliffe grad and freelance writer whose paternal family tree is rooted in Mayflower timber (her career-diplomat father is descended from Miles Sta-dish). Beryl said that she and Adam, 22, a producer in WCBS-TV's news department in Manhattan, will be married this month...