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Standard & Poor's, the investment service that keeps track of corporate earnings and dividends, not only reported record earnings itself ($2.7 million), but also seemed to celebrate the buoyant business outlook by appointing a pretty girl, Skidmore Graduate Penny Kaniclides, 28, a vice president of its computer subsidiary...
...pride and ambition who falls. There is a Fool, Petey Boyle, a hanger-on of Stanton's. There is a prophetic Priest, Father Coyne. The confrontations between Stanton and Quinn are carefully spaced and prepared. Alfred's nine years of writing have produced the highly controlled play which his buoyant, poetic dialogue needs for grounding...
...Cuban economy is in tatters, but certainly not "back where it started as a one-crop sugar producer." Cuba's economy before Castro was buoyant and quite diversified, although the sugar industry was the basic business, just as steel is in this country. Contrary to what you say, Castro is a very real threat. Nevertheless, your portrayal of Brother Raúl as the archetype of the bastard is quite accurate. NÉSTOR E. CRUZ GAVALDÁ Villanova University...
...launching of the Tokyo Maru symbolized a major change in the nature of Japan's long-buoyant economy. Japan lives by trade, and for years that trade was produced chiefly by its light industry, which flooded world markets with cameras, transistor radios and miniature TV sets. Today, by contrast, Japan's heavy industry, particularly steel and shipbuilding, accounts for the major portion of the country's exports. Japanese yards have 7,800,000 tons of new ships under construction or on order, will sell 75% of the total to foreign buyers. Overall, exports rose 27% last year...
...million deficit three years ago to a profit of $14 million last year. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines last month announced its first profitable quarter in five years-$4,000,000 in earnings for the April-June period. Rising on the New York Stock Exchange along with the buoyant stocks of U.S. airlines-which are also having an excellent year-KLM stock in the last two weeks has gained 18 points, closing...