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...going on." Consumers, too, have their doubts about the pace of the economy, and some mer chants report a buyers' tendency to put off deferable "big-ticket" purchases- furniture, appliances, etc. The University of Michigan's Survey Research Center this week reported "a marked decline in con sumer optimism" in the past two months...
...novel's end. the violent past has caught up with the placid present. The Indians are soon corrupted by the liquor that Jerrod's father illegally sells them. Civilization intrudes in other ways; a hard-boiled woman reporter publicizes Teawhit, drawing crowds of bumptious tourists, and con men stage a carnival and a rodeo-cheap shows that fake what once was real and vital. In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. Little Buckety dies when he falls off a bronco at the rodeo. Author...
...wanted to go it alone, offered to buy B. & O. stock as the first step toward merger. Last week, as the C. & O. mailed its offer to B. & O. stockholders, New York Central President Alfred Perlman jumped into action. He appealed to the Interstate Commerce Commission to con duct a study to establish new ground rules for Eastern rail mergers, hoping thus to block the other roads moves until he can strengthen his own position. He also said he wants to make an offer to B.&O. stockholders for 50% of the road's stock...
...trying to change tax laws to catch wealthy tax dodgers who, he claims, cheat ed the government of $65 million last year - enough to pay for a year's educa tion for 1,000,000 Filipino children. His biggest reform was to institute a "con trolled decontrol" of the peso designed to create a free currency market within four years. Under his new regulations, import ers of "essential goods" get their dollars at more favorable rates than those who bring in Cadillacs and air conditioners...
Around the World. In the midst of the furor. Hal Hayes suddenly reappeared at his Beverly Hills home, then called reporters to the bar of a Sunset Strip restaurant. He had not been "missing," he told . them, but had been around the world. He had been to the summit con ference in Paris, and to Hong Kong, Cairo and Beirut; he had been negotiating to build missile bases in France. Italy and Pakistan. "I haven't been hiding from anyone," said Hal Hayes. "Everybody is going to get paid. As of tonight, we've written $40 million worth...