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...increase investment greatly when so much of their existing plant lies idle. The statistics are not gathered by the Federal Reserve, which publishes them, but by McGraw-Hill, Inc., which matches production figures against an annual survey of the capacity increases planned by large companies in 18 industries. Clayton Gehman, a Federal Reserve economist, says that the figures should be "regarded with caution." He suspects that the true operating rate of U.S. industry is about 82% of capacity...
...most are reluctant to apply for children because they are afraid of being rejected by white adoption agencies. But given a choice between leaving black kids (or children of other racial minorities) in institutions or placing them with willing white families, most experts would vote for the latter. Says Clayton Hagen of the Lutheran Social Service in Minnesota: because children need homes, "we cannot wait until society is prepared. A person who finds his identity in his race cannot bring up a child of another color. But a person who finds his identity as a human being can well...
Vertical Hold. The ITT action leaves unresolved one of the most crucial ambiguities in antitrust law: Does the Clayton Act, a keystone of the nation's antitrust policy for more than five decades, apply to conglomerates? The act clearly bans major acquisitions that "substantially lessen competition." It has been applied to horizontal mergers of directly competing firms and to vertical mergers of companies that have customer-supplier relationships. But it does not specifically forbid the kind of mergers that form conglomerates: those involving firms offering apparently unrelated goods or services. The Justice Department's three suits against...
...some, the flesh is more all than for others. Clayton Claw Cleaver Clementine, the hero of The Onion Eaters, has three testicles. He is descended-so to speak-from a line of similarly endowed gentry, most notably Clementine of the Three Glands. But what do three testicles mean? A mystical trinity illuminating some absurd need to procreate? A symbol suggesting a metaphysic of pawnbroking? Likely as not, it is simply an animation of the familiar euphemism, "the family jewels...
Stowell said that a number of Crimson trackmen turned in "outstanding performances." Among these was that of Bob Clayton who ran the half mile in 1:51.0, his best time of the year...