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...payments deficit in 1965 fell to $1.3 billion, less than half the drain of the year before and the lowest level since 1957. The biggest reason: a $2.25 billion drop in bank loans to foreigners. Offsetting that gain, however, imports rose faster than exports, partly because of dock strikes and partly in response to the demand for goods from free-spending consumers and businessmen. Result: the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-shrank from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion last year. The trend, said Connor, remains a "very serious" problem. On top of that, Viet...
...chief sleepwalker is a distinguished barrister (Ray Milland), in the dock on a murder rap for killing a judge. Milland had threatened to kill the man responsible for the hit-and-run death of his daughter, and the judge was a bum driver-certainly enough circumstantial evidence to suit anybody. After a lifetime of scrutinizing the criminal mind, Milland is such a right honorable chump that he harbors on his own staff an ex-con who spent 15 years preparing the frame-up to revenge himself on both judge and barrister. Enough clues turn up at the Old Bailey...
Sept.--Dietz asks the Board of Zoning Appeals to veto the Coop's building permit for the annex on the grounds that the truck dock is too small and that the building has too much floor area for its lot size...
...Dietz asks the Appeals Board to toss the Coop out of the first half of the annex because it has no temporary loading dock. The Coop shows pictures of a truck unloading on a wooden platform next to the building. Dietz' attorney claims that the photographs were staged and that the platform is usually blocked. The Coop denies...
...Superior Court's preliminary decision says that the Coop should cut down on its floor area but does not have to change its loading dock. Negotiations between Dietz and the Coop begin...