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...July monthly letter, the First National City Bank of New York cautiously clouded its crystal ball, noted that "the good and bad ele ments in the business news have continued roughly in balance in recent weeks and the overall measure of activity has moved broadly sideways." In San Fran cisco, James Black, chairman of Pacific Gas & Electric, the West Coast's largest public utility, took a serious view of the economy's uncertainty, said it spurred the kind of "depression-maybe" talk that was last heard at the low point of the 1958 recession. Said Black...
Divorced. François Sagan (born Quoirez), 25, France's slick novelist of disillusioned sex; and Publishing Executive Guy Schoeller, 44; after two years of marriage, no children; in Paris...
...swing through 18 nations, he had picked up five honorary degrees, nine decorations and still another shapely airline hostess to go nightclubbing with: a 22-year-old Hawaiian beauty queen named Carol Ah You, who works for Great Lakes Air Lines and ac companied the President from San Fran cisco to Hawaii. Said Bung Karno, step ping off a charted Pan American DC-6B still staffed by favorite stewardess No. i, 25-year-old Joan Sweeney: "This has been much more successful than my earlier trips." But the old place was not much fun to come home to. Rebel...
...soundproofing!1' groans another embittered tenant. "Somebody above wakes me up every morning playing Chopin on the piano." Adds Fran Weiss: "When the guy next door says to his wife, 'Roll over,' I roll over...
Unlike most suffering dwellers in the new ziggurats of Manhattan, the Washington Square Villagers rebelled, formed a Tenants Association (324 members) to struggle with the management. But the association proved to be too tame for Fran Weiss and some other angry tenants, who split off into a "Faction for Action." Artistic tenants contributed cartoons (see cut) to the cause. Last week the Tenants Association was quarreling with the Faction for Action, the Faction for Action was making plans to sue the management, and the management was advertising that "the flowers are blooming, the fountains are spouting. New Yorkers are renting...