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Necessary Fact. Economists, including many employed by industry, generally do not take as dim a view of the profits squeeze as do businessmen. To laments that it has even cut into dividends, the economists point out that, in fact, dividends have been rising at a faster rate in the past ten years (see chart) than either wages or industrial production...
...outlook is not dim for Love, who is beginning his 12th season as varsity coach. To replace Boyden, Love has tapped sophomore Dick Masland, the stroke of last year's freshman boat. Though light at 6 ft., 2 in. and 169 pounds, Masland has had to outlast three oarsmen from last year's varsity boat for his position and should turn in a solid performance...
Police with submachine guns were on the roof of the Palais de Justice, at the doors, and inside the dim-lit gilt and paneled courtroom. On the dais sat a nine-man tribunal consisting of three French generals, three magistrates, two civilians and an admiral. In the dock last week appeared bullnecked, tough Edmond Jouhaud. 57. a former general who served as air force chief of staff, most recently No. 2 chieftain of the Secret Army Organization in Algeria, where last month he was ignominiously arrested without a fight...
Saab (stands for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget-Swedish Aircraft Co. in English) has been Sweden's leading plane manufacturer since 1939. But when prospects for the airframe industry began to look dim after World War II, Saab's aircraft engineers went to work designing a car. By 1950 they produced a wind tunnel-tested model that was nearly perfect aerodynamically, but had to be redesigned to hold people. Since then, under the prodding of slide rule-toting Managing Director Tryggve Holm, 57, Saab has become the car for the automotive purist who revels in its front-wheel drive...
...book's focus is a dim figure from history, a Spanish renegade named Guerrero, who tried to shake the Maya princes from their fatalism and organize resistance to the invaders. The enigma of Guerrero is not fully resolved at the book's end; he is a less complete character than that other Stacton enigma, the Pharaoh Ikhnaton of the brilliant On a Balcony (TIME, Sept. 6. 1959). The trouble may be that philosophical novelists are, in their weakest moments, tract-writing zealots. Stacton's message in this book is that the proper study of doomed...