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...concessions are typical of the patient moderation that Gowon, 31, has pursued. He prevented violence by not forcing union on the resentful Ibos. Despite a drop in foreign investment in Nigeria, he has kept the economy growing: exports exceeded imports by a record $82 million in the first nine months of 1966, and a predicted decline in employment never came. Nigeria's efficient, British-trained bureaucracy still provides most government services. And even though 6,000 Ibos quit their railroad jobs, Gowon has kept the freight trains on schedule, partly by hiring white engineers...
...Fairchild Camera and Gulf & Western-hit a 35-year high in December. The short-interest total began dropping-it was 2,000,000 shares lower at the beginning of last week-as the short sellers began covering themselves in a rising market. Buying also were mutual funds, which had kept about $3 billion liquid and ready during an uncertain autumn and now moved in with some of it to pick up favorites...
...general, nonetheless, Johnson drew surprisingly little criticism. The New York Stock Exchange, which had begun a rise six days earlier, dipped quickly the morning after the speech but rallied within hours and, in a gigantic trading day, closed 8.35 points higher than it opened, and then kept up its steam all week (see U.S. BUSINESS). On Capitol Hill, key finance-committee leaders from both parties predicted that Congress would probably not rush consideration of a tax hike, since the President had not indicated that it was an emergency measure. But they were confident that an increase, if still necessary...
While obviously unhappy about it, the Administration has pretty well exhausted both its stockpiles and its powers of persuasion. Industry, meanwhile, has learned to be more prudent. This time round, a number of the companies consulted with Washington before raising prices, then kept the increases relatively modest. And, as Ackley admitted, the copper, molybdenum and aluminum producers had patiently "held back price increases for periods ranging from six months to more than a year...
Tame Lion. Offstage, no project or gimmick was too daring, too dangerous or too absurd for her. She took up sculpture and painting, the piano and writing, pistol shooting and fishing, ballooning and alligator hunting. She went down into a Pennsylvania coal mine, kept a tame lion in her house, and-though she claimed vehemently that she opposed capital punishment-attended a hanging in London, a garroting in Madrid and two beheadings in France. "If there's anything more remarkable than watching Sarah act," observed one admirer, "it's watching her live...