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...humans who walked the streets. That way of life seemed ended when the barbaric Goths came pillaging, leaving behind them ruins of Roman art. But the Goths themselves, even while deriving from the Romans, gave their name to an art form that took its own place in the cultural current. Henry Moore draws from this past, as from the past of the savage idol carvers of Africa, Central America and the South Seas. But he has also moved beyond the past, and in so doing he is the representative of a group of brilliant moderns who have...
...enlightened King"). And early in his career he was in high enough favor with the King to be appointed tutor to Crown Prince Moulay Hassan. But there is bad blood between Ben Barka and his former pupil, who has sided openly with Istiqlal's right wing in the current political dispute. And as commander in chief of the army, Moulay Hassan has troops to back...
...cleared out 485,000 U.S.-made cars in August, 50% more than last year and the best August since the banner car sales year 1955. Thanks to the surge of buying, the backlog of unsold cars dropped to 725,000 on September 1, only a 39-day supply at current sales rates...
They based their forecast on the fact that each postwar cycle has had two or three years of expansion, followed by one or two years of contraction. The current boom got under way 17 months ago, and the key indicators are cycling ahead of schedule. Manufacturers' new orders snapped back to pre-slump peaks in 13 months v. 17 months in the 1953 slump, 16 months in the 1948 slowdown; personal income recovered peak levels in 14 months v. 16 months in the other two postwar recessions. Last week the Commerce Department announced that spending for new plant...
...current rates, aircraft profits will drop from $614 million last year to $350 million this year. Does an industry earning $350 million have cause for worry? "You buy stocks on the earnings outlook," said one Wall Streeter, "and almost all the aircraft earnings will continue to nose down." Compared with their 1959 highs, all aircraft stocks are well down. General Dynamics has dropped from 66½ to 48½, Martin from 62½ to 38¼, Douglas from 59¼ to 46, North American from 52⅝ to' 37¼, Grumman from...