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...easy to stay home in August, since many businesses simply close down for the month. The French production index slipped to 66% of the yearly average. Survival in the empty cities has its risks-the plumber, the doctor and the baker are all at the beaches. In Italy, most bars, restaurants, movies and drugstores are shut down for eight to 15 days. Every other shop in Paris bears the sign Fermeture annuelle. Most Western Europeans could well understand the sign posted last week outside the Church of Santa Lucia in Verona. It read, "Absent on vacation," and was signed...
Guards stood outside the locked door of Room 1202-"The Delegate Control Center"-where trusted Scranton aides worked diligently by phone to shake out new delegate strength. At their disposal were three separate and expertly cross-referenced filing systems, including boxes of index cards, fat black notebooks and large manila envelopes, all packed with vital information on each of 1,308 delegates, 1,308 alternates, and dozens of key politicians. Inherited from Nelson Rockefeller, the files contained names, ages, financial background, marital status, business contacts, clubs, fraternities, presidential preference, and the names of friends or associates who might...
...Mundelein study civil rights and the psychology of poverty. In pursuit of higher education, nuns sometimes exchange their habits for dresses (as did the Columbia student who toured Russia) or get ecclesiastical permission to study writers, such as Sartre and Gide, whose works are on Rome's Index of Forbidden Books. And when nuns go on to graduate school, says Sister Mary Ann Ida of Mundelein, "the best type of university is often a state or large private university, and not necessarily a Catholic...
Wall Street greeted the July 4 weekend with a bang. After going nowhere for six puzzling weeks, the Dow-Jones index of industrial shares reached new records in four out of five trading sessions, climbed 101 points for the week to close at an alltime high of 841.47. The gain was all the more impressive because the market is usually sluggish just before a warm-weather holiday. By crossing the 840 mark, which brokers had viewed as a psychological hurdle, the market appeared well poised for further advance...
...reports of rising department stores sales for June in the telltale New York City area. This statistic, like many commonly used ones, ignores some recent and significant changes in the economy, since it fails to measure the growth of discount houses and other fast-expanding stores that have no index of their own. Says Roye L. Lowry, executive secretary of the Federal Statistics Users' Conference: "Considering that drugstores now sell pots and pans and that supermarkets sell clothes and fertilizer, the figures on department store sales really don't tell very much." Much more meaningful as an indicator...