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...retail prices. General Electric Co. dropped "Fair Trade" pricefixing on small appliances, and rival manufacturers promptly followed along (see BUSINESS). That much-mourned casualty of inflation, the 5? cup of coffee, made a comeback in Los Angeles restaurants. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its consumer price index crept upward again in January, but the increase was largely the result of Florida's disastrous winter, which sharply upped fruit and vegetable prices. And the index only faintly reflected the discounts, trade-in allowances and bargain sales that have lately been trimming actual prices to consumers...
While ideological thaw crept through the satellites in the wake of the 20th Party Congress, East Germany's Socialist Unity (Communist) Party remained the iceberg of the Communist world. Goat-bearded First Secretary Walter Ulbricht, 64, an old-line Stalinist, kept his party and his nation under tight control. Intellectuals or students showing signs of "liberalism" were summarily jailed...
Only the week before, the Navy had babied its slender satellite-laden Vanguard. Day after day the tension on the Cape had tightened as the Vanguard countdown crept steadily toward zero: once within nine minutes of launching, once again within 4½ minutes, again to 22 seconds-even to a hairbreadth 14 seconds. Each time the launching was scrubbed. And at length, the red-eyed, nerve-racked Navymen found a small propellant leak in the rocket's second stage. It was during the Vanguard trials that the Army moved its shrouded bird from a hangar to its launching...
Profit Slump. Humphrey argued back that National Steel's other goods and services, e.g., freight rates, have crept up so much that its- manufacturing costs are at least $7.88 a ton higher than last spring. Yet National's July price increase averaged only $4.58 a ton because it specializes in certain steels on which there was a smaller-than-average rise or none at all. Humphrey felt that any price rise "tends to be inflationary," but. he thought the steel rise was necessary. So hard have higher costs nipped National that its third-quarter profits slid...
...Good evening," said a dark girl in a black-and-white kimono. She had crept up quietly and she carried a small green order pad. There was only one other person in the resturant--a pudgy, bespectacled occidental in gray flannel, with a bright silk vest. I was seated in front...