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Under the long, lemon-tinted gown and the towering headdress of aigrette plumes, the tall, tawny body is heavier now. The warm eyes seem smaller, softer, in a face fleshed with age. But the quick, bright smile is as vivid as ever; the remembered throb of her voice still husks the rafters-a rising, clear-toned shout. At 53, Josephine Baker, the supple emigre from St. Louis who sailed into the heart of Paris on the high old tides of the '20s, is still a top banana of the boulevards. It is three years since her last "retirement...
...plastics industry is after is a porous bag that 1) will not cling to the face, 2) will not generate static electricity. Some manufacturers have turned to making combination plastic and paper bags, while other key producers, such as National Distillers' Kordite Corp., are returning to the heavier, more expensive plastic they first used to make bags three years ago. They believe that heavier-gauge bags are less dangerous because they do not cling to the skin as readily. In the search for a safer product. Technical Tape Corp., New Rochelle, N.Y., a major producer of plastic bags...
Except for its decisions on school desegregation, the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren has come under no heavier fire than for its rulings in the prickly area of internal security. Time and again, in apparently sweeping opinions, the court threw its weight on the side of individuals involved in security cases-to the point where many a sober-minded observer feared that the public interest was being jeopardized. But last week, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court gave clearer focus to two of the most controversial of its earlier security-case rulings, brought...
...week's end the rates went up. Major New York banks hiked their prime interest from 4% to 41%, equal to the prerecession level. The boost reflected heavier demands for bank loans by both business and consumers, also brought loan rates into line with yields on bonds. Most bankers now expect that the Federal Reserve will raise the discount rate from its current 3%. As interest rates climb, they will drive down farther a market already at a historic...
...least two London brokers are keeping their trading desks open until 8:30 p.m. to handle orders to buy British securities. The Frankfurt stock exchange, which closes before the New York Stock Exchange opens because of the time difference, is thinking of reopening later if U.S. transactions get heavier...