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...citizens of Rome have a peculiar way of venting their frustrations. Instead of climbing walls, they climb monuments. Several times a year, some angry Roman or other makes his way to the top of the Colosseum, the dome of St. Peter's or the monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, where he stands or sits for a while in a public expression of outrage. Police and firemen are so nervous about the popularity of monument perching that last week they scrambled onto the dome of the Pantheon to rescue Liza Barkley, 19, a tourist from Philadelphia. Liza was hustled...
...under 35, and virtually all of them have completed at least twelve years of school, compared with ten years on the average for those 45 to 64. Industrial psychologists are sure that it is these young workers who have caused the U.S. auto industry's absenteeism rate to climb. At Ford, the rate rose from 2.8% in 1960 to 5.3% in 1970. And it is largely absenteeism that has put a lid on Detroit's ability to build cars faster. Productivity per man-hour in the U.S. auto industry increased an average of only 3.6% annually from...
...Sadat has been able to climb out of his "year of decision" corner, without taking any action. Simply because a decision has been made, he now tells visitors, does not mean that it must be implemented immediately. Nevertheless, in talks last week with Syrian President Hafez Assad and Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, Sadat appeared to be psyching himself for an inevitable battle...
...Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, also estimates that the real growth in retail sales for Christmas will be about 9%. Including inflation, a First National Bank of Chicago study reports that sales for Christmas and the first half of 1972 will climb by as much as 12% in chain stores and by up to 20% in discount houses...
...precipitous fall had been pre ceded by an equally dramatic climb. For more than 30 years, the U.S. Treasury had fixed the official ceiling price of silver at $1.29 per oz. In July 1967, with its silver stockpile declining and the price of silver at $1.70 on the London free market, the U.S. removed the ceiling on silver-and the domestic price shot up. Big-time commodity speculators and small-time investors began to gamble on silver futures. That seemed a minimal risk because the world produces far less silver than it uses...