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...sorry for every one of them.'' Patterson's failure to predict any rise in AMF shares in the near future was coldly realistic: together with dozens of other glamour issues that have hit bottom since last fall, AMF stock is caught in the grip of a stubbornly listless stock market...
Having decided after long and clamorous struggle that "the day of the small, family-held corporation is gone." Vivien Kellems, 65, Connecticut's would-be Joan of Arc whose "voices" seem to ring like Ayn Rand, sold out her 34-year-old cable-grip works in Stonington. But her vendetta against the Internal Revenue Service would go on. Renouncing a 1961 pledge to stick to her "knitting by the fireside" (among other reasons: she can't knit). Liberty Belle Kellems menacingly warned the bureaucratic foe: "I'm just getting a second breath...
...face the reappraisal that must follow the closing of the chapter of imperial power." Others had a simpler answer. Suggested the solidly Tory Sunday Times: "The country has become fatigued with the same faces expounding the same measures in the same cliches. The Conservative Party is losing its grip on middle-class loyalties, and it bores the public to a pulverizing degree...
...Through a Glass Derkly, the hero, who has just watched his daughter succumb to inherited insanity, announces that God is love. Since the young woman has lost her grip on reality in the presence of three who love her deeply, and has been unable to draw either comfort or support from their love, the sentiment seems somewhat irrelevant, but it is an appropriate conclusion to a film laden with unconvincing philosophies and illogical sequences...
...Nehru can no longer afford to let China gobble up any more Indian territory. If India cannot throw the Chinese out, it must hasten its defense buildup to deter Red China from any more land grabbing. If it does not, India may find itself in the grip of a five-finger vise...