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Broadcast over the Baghdad and Damascus radios, the statement claimed that the agreement signed in Cairo last April promised collective leadership but that Nasser, to preserve his "dictatorial existence," had tried to grab control of the new union-even inciting the "criminal" July 18 abortive coup in Syria, which was crushed at a cost of scores of dead. Calling themselves the true leaders of Arab federation, the Baathists declared that Egypt was still welcome to join, urged "popular forces in the Egyptian region" to indulge in an "upsurge and smashing of barriers in order to join with the other revolutionary...
Most Wall Streeters doubt that stocks are now riding for another fall. With the gift of 20/20 hindsight, they see that the 1961 market involved too much speculative buying by people who went deeply in debt to grab up stocks with more futuristic "glamour" than current earnings. This year's market leaders are blue-chip companies with strong earnings to back up their stock prices. Dow-Jones stocks are selling at 18.8 times per-share earnings, v. 22.9 times earnings in late 1961. The easily panicked amateur buyers, who deal in small lots, account for only 15.8% of trading...
Horror of Houlihcms. The bulldogger closes with the steer on his right, leans far over, and leaps. "I try to get the right horn in the bend of my elbow, and I grab the other horn with my left hand," explains Bynum. "That's to turn him left, and when he turns he's on one foot. Then you grab that muzzle and that off-horn and just try to wring his neck 'cause it won't break nohow." If the bulldogger's leverage is firm and his power is steadily exerted, the unstable steer...
...most exciting and annoying game fish. Wily and wary, the white marlin will trail a trolling boat for miles, inspecting the bait, even tapping it tentatively with its bill, then turn tail and nonchalantly swim away, with curses raining down over its wake. Or it will grab the bait sideways in its jaws, neatly avoiding the hook, then spit it back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto the hook by "racing" the bait (skipping it swiftly along the surface), then suddenly dropping it backward...
...Automatic 100 will be on sale late this month; to ensure its success, Dr. Land plans to hit the Christmas market with a $5,000,000 advertising campaign - the most he has ever put behind a camera. He is so confident that the public will grab it up that production of all but one other Polaroid model has been halted...