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...discuss any constructive steps until U.S. and British troops get out of Lebanon and Jordan (see FOREIGN NEWS). Because of this foreseeable Arab attitude, plus the fact that the U.S. has only one vote out of 81, it was predictable that the General Assembly would not, at the current emergency session at least, adopt any detailed program for carrying out the U.S.'s six points. All the U.S. could expect-and all the Administration expected-was an Assembly resolution 1) calling for a U.N. "presence" in Lebanon and Jordan, 2) favorably mentioning other points in the U.S. program, however...
Deke Parsons kept working. A top naval ordnance expert who had been with the Manhattan Project almost from its start, he sent current through Little Boy's test leads, watched calmly for the green monitor lights that told him Little Boy's mighty power was still in check. Fewer than 5 ft. of hollow shaft separated Little...
...only needs encouragement. It may exist, but it is not in control, and so long as incitements to assassination and prodding of hatreds and fears "work" better for Nasser, there was still little in Arab nationalism for the U.S., the U.N. or anyone else to latch onto. A subterranean current of passion and unrest, which might be dammed and might be diverted but cannot be stopped, is still the elemental force in the Middle East...
...pushed the market up, in the eyes of most Wall Streeters, is not easier credit but the fear of a new burst of inflation. Many a Wall Streeter shares the Fed's worry, feeling that anxiety over inflation has lifted stock prices too quickly on the basis of current earnings. This has caused a sharp change in the "spread"-the difference between stock and bond yields. As stock prices have risen, bonds have dropped (see below); while the return on blue chips has fallen to 3.8%, the best bonds now yield more than 4%. In the past...
...Daniel L. Gutman, partner in Zuckerman, Smith & Co.: "The market is enormously dangerous at current levels. There is a great deal of ignorant and superficial buying which is using inflation as an excuse. Unless inflation shows up in earnings and dividends, this reasoning is stupid. The market over the next six months will sell materially lower, touching last fall...