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...nation's first peacetime wage-price controls died last week, leaving disillusion and double-digit inflation in their wake. Almost immediately, prices began to scoot higher on a wide range of goods, including cars, light bulbs, liquid oxygen, some air-conditioning equipment and those basic materials, steel and copper...
...Whatever happens, most experts expect at least a temporary further bulge in living costs following the end of controls. The beginning of that bulge appeared quickly. Last week, U.S. Steel kicked up prices an average of 5.7% on its entire product line. Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge jacked up copper prices by 18%, to 800 per Ib. Chrysler added an average of almost 3% to the price of all its cars and trucks, and Westinghouse raised the price of its light bulbs by 10%. Hedonists will be hurt: the newsstand price of Playboy will...
...Continental Oil, Exxon and Kennecott Copper to report to their stockholders on their strip-mining activities...
...civil rights groups. A number of federal agencies are investigating possible job discrimination at some of the largest U.S. corporations. General Motors, General Electric, Ford and Sears already have been named as targets by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and other cases are expected in such basic industries as copper and aluminum...
...lines wide and gently curving, like lapping waves, gradually becoming choppier as he moves out to sea. Then lines become crowded, quick slashes of his stylus. In the same way, in his three reclining nudes (1939, 1941 and 1948), the surety of his stroke as he cut into the copper plate forms a line that is not a boundary for the human form, but a result of the swellings of the women's breasts, hips and thighs. Line never holds in his form, whether it is Mark Rothko's profile or a rolling hillside. Always, his line is an extension...