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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Tworkov stands for not standing for anything: "If I have a slogan, it is 'No commitment'; at a moment when there is admittedly little common ground, the best morality is not to have...
...Best hope for unshielded space travelers : the flares may die away during the low points of the eleven-year sunspot cycles, the first of which should come in about five years...
...their production for the year's first seven months stood 49% above that period last year, bringing operations to an annual rate of 6,135,000 passenger cars and 1,200,000 trucks. For automakers, July's" estimated production of 551,200 cars made it the third best July in history...
...industry, earnings were rising in what appeared to be the biggest quarterly gain over the comparable quarter a year before since the end of World War II. General Motors' Chairman Frederic G. Donner reported that corporate sales of $3.3 billion in the second quarter were the second best in history for that period (best: igss's $3.4 billion). G.M.'s first-half earnings climbed to $2.08 per share, v. $1.17 in the same period last year. Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed how well it had stepped up efficiency under President Mark W. Cresap Jr., raised second-quarter earnings...
...best of modern mysteries equal or outrank the run-of-the-rental-shelf "straight" novel in almost every department-plotting, characterization, background. They are novels of emotional conflict, in unusual settings, books that wrestle with the problems of frustration or greed or success. The traditional hole in the victim's head is often added as a sort of casual dividend. Seasonal items...