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...deficit at $11.6 billion; as recently as last September he said that it could be held at $28 billion. Its sharp rise will reflect the infusions of federal funds that Nixon has decided since then are necessary before July, plus the fact that the Government has revised steadily downward its estimates of the 1971 gross national product, thus cutting the amount of expected tax receipts. The preliminary G.N.P. total: $1,047 billion, or fully $18 billion less than the Administration's celebrated prediction a year ago of $1,065 billion...
...basic shapes of the road signs date back to the Middle Ages. The gypsies used to mark a charcoal sign on the first available white wall of a village on the road. A triangle, the angle downward, stood for a hand with the index finger toward the ground and meant, "Danger, be careful, no hospitality"; the triangle with the angle upward, stood for a hand with the index finger aiming toward the sky and meant, "Go ahead, good place on this road"; a circle meant, "Nice place for the circle of the campfire, a place to rest...
...With more money to lend than their corporate customers seem to want, bankers have cut their "prime" rate on business loans from 6% to 5½%. Rates on commercial paper-promissory notes sold by business to raise short-term cash -have fallen too, and that drop could put more downward pressure on the prime rate. Such major banks as First National City and Irving Trust in New York and First National in Boston have introduced a "floating" prime rate that can be changed weekly in response to commercial-paper movements...
...doing more than labor in holding down inflation. Burns reiterated the Administration's view that there should be no controls on interest, but he promised that his committee would keep a sharp eye on sectors of the money market that might be "sluggish" in following the current downward trend in loan charges...
...deceptive fragility, but the English lass is really porcelain on the outside, granite within. The girl is stone blind-the result of an equestrian accident. But she is making a wizard adjustment at her uncle's isolated house in Sussex. Then, rather abruptly, things spiral downward. Her boy friend Steve (Norman Eshley) leaves her alone to take an afternoon nap. She awakes to a house full of death. Some bloody maniac has gone crackers with a shotgun, cutting down everyone in the family. But he has accidentally dropped a clue-a bracelet with his name engraved upon the surface...