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...atmosphere is the result of the simple friction of a young population on an old seasoned culture that has lost much of its drive. Youth is the word and the deed in London-and well it should be: nearly 30% of its population is in the 15-34 age bracket, far more than the rest of the country as a whole. This new generation has grown up with fewer class inhibitions and, equally important, amid rising affluence. Money is much of what makes London go, go, go. "When I was a kid," says Actor Terry Stamp, "I was indoctrinated with...
...time since 1921. Many a $1,000-par medium-grade corporate bond is selling close to $900 and yielding about 6% ; some tax-free municipal bonds pay interest of 4%, which is as good as an 8% stock dividend return to an investor in a high-tax bracket. The current struggle in Wall Street's market is not between bulls and bears, but between stocks and bonds. Calling some important turns are the faceless but formidable institutions-mutual funds, pension and profit-sharing funds, insurance companies and banks -which account for about 31% of all trading on the major...
...than half a pack a day outnumber men 3 to 1; those who stop at a pack a day outnumber men 2 to 1. Deep inhaling is half as common among the 35-44 women as among men, and only one-third as common in the 55-64 age bracket...
Played by the Philadelphia Orchestra, it was a rewarding achievement worth the waiting. The long, tragically beautiful opening theme is shot through with un utterable sadness. The rambling and slightly diffuse second and fourth move ments bracket a brief, mocking middle movement entitled Purgatorio...
...bridegroom (Richard Jordan) is the sort of lad who is so taken with the way the light falls on his wife's blue-beaded necklace that he is wearing it. Furthermore, the boy seems to have an excellent chance of remaining in the no-income bracket, his only known assets being far-out light verse, arty photography, folk singing and whacking together his own furniture. Though Fonda's mind and face boggle in a perfect weather map of cloudy consternation, he makes a liberal-minded effort to adjust to all this. His period of adjustment conies...