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...which the New York Daily News replied: "A bank robber might just as well argue that the loot was justly his because he took it in a hurry without killing anybody and made a fast getaway...
Hedging, Not Hogging. Balancing these bad omens are some favorable signs. Not only are the 1962 autos off to a fast getaway-which portends more steel buying by Detroit-but.some manufacturers are beginning to fatten their steel inventories against a possible strike when steel labor contracts expire June 30. Last week Ford Motor Co. said that it was already stocking up; Chrysler and General Motors plan to start hedge buying in January. But because most steel users expect the Kennedy Administration to step in and stop any 1962 steel strike early in the game, steelmen suspect that hedge buying will...
There were few failures-but one of them led to the burglars' downfall. Cruising one night in April 1960, Patrolman John D. Bates saw burglars leave a 17th Street coffee shop. When Bates chased the getaway car, a safe fell out of the trunk; the man who came back to retrieve it turned out to be a policeman. Bates told his story to Chief James E. Childers, passed on department rumors that a dozen policemen were cracking safes. He was ordered to see a psychiatrist. When the psychiatrist reported Bates was eminently sane and was probably telling the truth...
...above the second-quarter level. And all signs are that there is even better to come. Commerce Department economists anticipate that inventory accumulation will increase from a yearly rate of $4 billion in the third quarter to $7 billion in the fourth; such a rise, combined with a fast getaway for the 1962 cars, could lift the G.N.P. rate to $540 billion by Christmas...
...Louis Malle, who filmed The Lovers. Blonde Jeanne Moreau, who charged The Lovers with her intense, weathered sensuality, is the.star, and the plot at first seems to be that of a satisfactory thriller: Jeanne and her lover plot the killing of her husband, a rich industrialist, but during the getaway the lover gets trapped overnight in an automatic elevator (an authentic French touch). Perhaps things went wrong when Trumpeter Miles Davis was hired to do the sound track; trumpeters are doubtful assets, and should never require feature billing. Director Malle has confined all the action of his film...