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...involved, but The System that is at fault. It may be getting a bit tire-some to hear it, but boredom doesn't change matters any. The international monetary system has weathered--just barely--three major crises in the past year, and the prospects for fundamental reform seem scarcely brighter now than they were 12 months...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Franc Talk | 12/10/1968 | See Source »

...truck manufacturers will produce a record 1,803,000 trucks and Jeeplike vehicles. Understandably, they are delighted about the present - a year of sales in excess of $4 billion-and see an even brighter future ahead. Said Ford President Semon Knudsen at the American Trucking Associations' convention last week: "We expect the total truck market to pass a 2,000,000 annual rate in the early 1970s and to reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trucking: Picking Up | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...Succeed details the rise of one J. Pierrepont Finch from nowhere to family and fortune, aided by a get-rich-quick book plus a bravely installed deus ex machina. This time around, one Pope Brock gives life to Finch, and he does so with a modicum of class. Brighter lights, on the other hand, shine to every side, not the least of which is Timothy Hall as J. B. Biggley, the boss of World-Wide Wickets where Finch is employed. Hall handles a considerably larger portion of the show's laughs than did Rudy Vallee in the B'way original...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: How to Succeed | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

Manhattan looks handsomer, cleaner and brighter to me than it did when I was last here three years ago. A lot of good work seems to have been done on those slums along the tracks between 138th and 110th streets, and many of the new buildings in Midtown are a delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 15, 1968 | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Inevitably, the outcome of the 1968 elections put the political futures of all the men involved into new perspectives and new lights-some brighter, some dimmer. Besides the Nixon-Agnew victory, what may prove to be a major factor in many careers is the surprisingly good showing of Hubert Humphrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LOSER: A Near Run Thing | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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