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...total sales went up 19.6% and their profits 39% from 1972. Both gains were the biggest in the 20-year history of the survey. Oil companies, not surprisingly, posted the largest profit gains, a median 53.3%. Exxon, while remaining second to General Motors in sales ($25.7 billion to $35.8 bil lion) passed GM by almost every other measure: profits ($2.44 billion to $2.40 billion), assets and stockholders' equity. But many other industries did almost as well: paper and wood-products makers, mining companies and textile manufacturers all registered median profit increases of more than 45%. Only nine...
...managed to remain all but invisible: he held no formal press conferences, granted precious few interviews and avoided appearing before Congress. Last week the former hardhat from Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen finally surfaced to detail for a House subcommittee the Nixon Administration's minimum-wage bil−and with that single appearance, Brennan provoked a maxi-split with his old colleagues in the union movement. Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "We are aghast that Brennan has so completely abandoned the trade-union principles he espoused for all of his life before coming to Washington." Jerry...
Restic will go with the same offensive lineup that he used against BU last week. Steve Sanvely will start at center, flanked by Bob Kircher and Doug Criss at the guards. The tackles will be manned by Tim Manna and Bil Ferry, Jeff Bone, coming off a solid performance last week, will be the wide receiver, and John Hagerty will hold down the tight end spot...
Some Western experts speculate that Husák may have agreed to the trials of lower-ranking liberals in order to fend off demands from hard-liners that he try the political leaders of the Prague spring. Two leading "ultras" are Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, the Soviets' principal collaborators during the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia. Bilák and Indra reportedly favor punishing even Dubček, who lives quietly in Bratislava. He is in charge of the motor pool for the Forest Administration...
Also, Husák is engaged in a power struggle with two rivals on the Politburo, Vasil Bilàk and Alois Indra, ultra hard-liners who immediately welcomed the Soviet invasion in 1968. In order to protect his tenuous position, Husák may have been forced to order the arrests...