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...profit for the Socialist mother land. In the Soviet Union, where selling Bibles can lead to banishment, Klavdia was just a little too avantgarde. By week's end Chikin could report in a follow-up story that the doublecross to dialectical materialism had been avenged. Klavdia was suddenly jobless...
...Rich but jobless, Bob Evans borrowed Simon's technique, picked up companies with sound products but sagging profits, swiftly turned them into solid moneymakers. Among them: firms that make small gasoline engines, industrial fixtures, furniture (Widdecomb) and machines that paint white lines down the middle of roads. Having sold two firms last year "to get some money to play with," Evans decided to buy into A.M.C. because its stock was selling for only 60% of the company's net worth...
...Britain, where stagnation and affluence continue to make an odd couple. London looks like the best-dressed city in Europe; saddlemakers and Savile Row tailors are backlogged with orders, and the average Briton feels that he is doing better than all right. Yet the island suffers from overfull employment (jobless rate: 1.4%), spiraling wages and sluggish productivity. To battle inflation and spur exports, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has sought to deflate domestic consumption by raising taxes and restricting credit. In 1965 the pound was thus defended and strengthened, and the trade gap was drastically pruned. Economic growth, however, dropped from...
...month economic advance. Last week the Labor Department reported that nonfarm payrolls covered a record 61.8 million workers in November, a 4.4% gain from a year ago-the largest in 14 years. While overall unemployment fell to an eight-year low of 4.2% in November, the jobless rate among skilled craftsmen has slumped...
...Jack Benny, Judy Canova, Phil Harris all used him-usually as the voice of a sleazy racetrack tout. But Kiss-of-Death Leonard, as he was beginning to be called, soon found himself in still another dying medium. Radio was moribund, television was thriving and once again Leonard was jobless. He had no compunction about trying his hand at TV scriptwriting. "The minimum price in those days was $550 for a half-hour show," Leonard recalls. "No respectable writer would sell for that, but I would." Leonard was no Paddy Chayefsky, but he was cheap, and in Hollywood cheap...