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...impact that Nixon's new program was having on the economy. The New York Stock Exchange's Dow Jones industrial average, which had soared to a high of 908.37 the previous week, started the week lower as Wall Street investors consolidated their gains and began to digest the possibility of an excess-profits tax; but it ended strongly at 912.75. The wholesale cost of food, industrial raw materials and manufactured goods rose .3% during the month -a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.4%, the fastest rate of increase in six months. But the increase is largely calculated from price...
...Hunt Foods, Canada Dry), which had taken over McCall's-was negotiating with Boise Cascade to sell both the profitable Review and the money-losing McCall trade-book operation to Boise's publishing subsidiary, Communications/ Research/Machines Inc. CRM puts out the successful Psychology Today and Intellectual Digest. Cousins claimed he had a verbal repurchase agreement with Simon himself. But nothing was on paper, and both the company and Simon denied that there was any agreement...
...surrealism accomplished, Keneally continues as if nothing had happened. He has the special power of a poker-face comedian telling a gallows joke. Father and Mother Glover, for instance, spend their perfectly average evenings kneeling on all fours before the telly or pawing over a Reader's Digest...
...stand sharing. So it's one of the saddest things in the world to lose a friend because closeness puts her at a distance. Because friendship can grow on one part to something wider and more full of thick spacey potential than the other's situation could digest...
...growing similarities between Europeans have enabled investigators for the first time to draw a sketch of the composite Euroman. In a study commissioned by the Reader's Digest, 24,000 adult Europeans in 16 countries were surveyed in 1969 by leading research firms on the Continent. The results showed that Euroman is roughly 34, married and has 1.5 children. He is employed by a factory or company that has 50 or more employees. In addition to sizable social benefits, he earns about $50 a week in take-home pay. He quit school at 16, but he speaks one other...