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...like to find a "hot" industry and then recommend one of the most depressed companies in the field. Explains one top broker: "In a good industry, with profits going up quarter by quarter, even the garbage is going to go through the roof. If you want to make the biggest gain, you pick the most marginal company...
Next to the cost of the house itself, the single biggest family expense for many middle-and upper-class Americans is the furniture and decoration that go to make the house a home. Nor is it any longer a once-in-a-life-time investment. "Forty years ago, you furnished a home and were done with it," notes Robert Lauter, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy Co. Today, one out of five families changes residence every year, and it is a common pattern for a married couple to start off in a small apartment, move...
...ground, work is frustrating for the 300 native laborers and their supervisors. Bulldozers slop through red clay so slippery that they have to winch their way downhill as well as up. The biggest challenge is laying the pipeline, which will cost Texaco and Gulf about $50 million. Machete-wielding workers are helicoptered into the jungle to clear the land for the disassembled bulldozers that follow. Then pipe is dropped in. Four 3,600-h.p. diesel pumping stations are being constructed to boost the oil up the mountain...
That comeback by private enterprise is particularly impressive because, in the best of circumstances, it is virtually impossible for private business to gain a foothold in a field totally dominated by the Federal Government. In this case, the biggest part of the job was to beat the red-tape-ridden FHA at its own game. The door to competition was opened by FHA's rigid 6% ceiling on interest rates, which President Johnson last week asked Congress to abolish. In recurrent periods of tight money, banks and other lenders have increasingly shunned FHA and Veterans Administration loans...
Cornell, runnerup in the League last year, could be another story. The Big Red--biggest disappointment in the Ivies this year--comes to the IAB tonight probably missing its 6-5 high scorer, Hank South...