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...such major problems as foreign competition, automation and changing patterns of living, it can also be a sign that a company-or an industry-is growing sluggish and sloppy. Many of the moves that companies make to combat profit squeezes are moves that should have been made be fore to keep them trim and healthy. Thus a period of profit squeeze-like the measles-is not just an annoyance but a chance to build up a measure of immunity for the future...
Janette herself loves television, sometimes bursts into tears when her time be fore the cameras is up, or babbles along on behalf of a product beyond the allotted time. Last week, however, Janette's fun and fortune-and that of eight other tiny-tot telecasters who enjoy current prominence-were being subjected to a two-way squeeze: tightening government regulation and the tensing of public opinion, which objects to the trend toward young TV and radio performers as both an esthetic annoyance and a violation of Mexico's child labor law. The consensus is that the piping...
...fired the pistol three times." The jury returned a verdict of "homi cide by gunshot wounds," which left it up to Franklin County Prosecutor Charles Hansen. He said that he was dissatisfied with the discrepancy between the accounts of father and son. The case would go be fore a grand jury, where Crime Reporter Ted Link could be indicted for murder...
Friends to the Fore. The case, as it unfolded in court, seemed remarkably simple. By Jack's own admission to the county grand jury, he had allowed longtime Crony Sidney J. Ungar, a real estate operator seeking city approval of a $30 million slum-clearance scheme, to pick up a $4,400 tab for the 1958 remodeling of Jack's Harlem apartment. Jack also admitted that he had lied to the district attorney by saying that his wife paid for the job out of her $100-a-week "table money"-before finally settling on the explanation that Ungar...
Hoping to catch the assassins before they could flee the country, security agents closed down Venezuela's ports. To reassure the nation that he himself was all right, Betancourt showed himself to the press. His face was scorched, his fore head was peeling, his swollen lips were smeared with healing jelly, and his eyes behind his dark-rimmed glasses were puffy. But he waved his bandaged paws cheerfully, and within hours was back at Miraflores Palace...