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Fiancées ,. & Finances. Inevitably, some businessmen have been burned. Rose Jewelers, a twelve-store Midwestern chain that does a brisk credit trade among teenagers, finds that purchasers of engagement rings are apt to skip out on their payments if their fiancées break up with them. In Lake Forest, Ill., Kraft's drugstore, a hangout for local college and prep students, abandoned its credit policy because of the difficulty of collecting accounts as the end of the school year neared...
...magazine has produced a slender daily with the motto: "What good is freedom of the press if there isn't one?" A free press apparently means little nuggets of New Leftism; last week the paper expanded somewhat, adding some Chronicle columnists. Meanwhile, out-of-town papers are enjoying brisk sales. The best local rundown of the day's news is provided by educational TV station KQED, which has hired some Chronicle people to read the news...
Tires are the biggest factor in Goodyear's business, and they now account for 60% of the company's output. A wide range of 30,000 other items, including chemicals, flooring and shoe products, is enjoying brisk sales. Goodyear's aviation division is the leading supplier of rubber fuel tanks for aircraft; the company's aerospace division turns out nonmetallic, lightweight armor for helicopter crews in Viet...
...Meeting to ponder the U.S. economy, twelve experts gathered under the auspices of the National Industrial Conference Board, emerged with predictions of a brisk first half, a slower second half, and for the year as a whole a satisfactory expansion in spite of unsettled periods. In summary, like 1967, it will be "another year of worrisome, uneasy prosperity...
...cast away" a chance to negotiate an end to the Viet Nam war early in 1967-has recorded almost 40,000 sales. That's not yet sufficient to recoup the advance of about $150,000 that Doubleday & Co. paid to Kennedy, but still it seems to be a brisk beginning...