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...astounding 27.6% ahead of last year. General Motors' sales are up 37% from the same time last year, Chrysler's 26%, and Ford's 25%. The nation's auto dealers, always quick to complain when they are being forced to take unsalable cars, now lament that Detroit underestimated the market and is not building fast enough. To a man, they are convinced that the auto industry is about to perform the hat trick by following zooming 1962 sales, which should hit 6,900,000 cars, with an even hotter 1963. Some talk daringly of a sales...
...loud lament along the sweeping...
...rise of Negro nationalism. Jazz compositions these days bear titles like A Message from Kenya (Art Blakey), Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston), Africa Speaks, America Answers (Guy Warren), Afro-American Sketches (Oliver Nelson). Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite-We Insist includes tunes like Tears for Johannesburg, a lament for the Africans shot down in the Sharpeville massacre. To younger jazzmen, a great musician like Louis Armstrong is suspect-instead of hopping on the freedom bus he has been content to remain an "Uncle...
...course, the food really is just the same (although prices have been jacked about a nickel an item), and the staff is just the same, but one must lament that the curious compulsion to glow with chrome which has already ravaged so many of the Square's eateries has now extended itself to the one place that was always comfortably ugly, and expansively comfortable...
Whatever the effect of the U.S. banking reforms under discussion last week (see above), they are unlikely to mute the small businessman's eternal lament: that a bank will lend him the money he needs only if he can show that he already has it. Nonetheless, in recent years the small businessman's plight has been significantly eased by a fast-rising breed of financiers who are called factors and operate on the theory that a company's best assets are its customers' debts...