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Eckstein, founder of Data Resources Inc. (DRI), one of the nation's largest economic forecasters, is not officially associated with NEEP, a non-profit group concerned with New England economic projection...
...protest the limits on the pardons, 3,000 demonstrators - perhaps the largest crowd the outlawed Spanish Communist Party has dared muster since the end of the Civil War in 1939 - gathered outside the Carabanchel Prison in the southwest outskirts of Madrid. As the Te Deum mass for Juan Carlos was scheduled to begin at San Jerónimo, the protesters marched on the sprawling prison, where a number of prominent leftists, including Trade Union Leader Marcelino Camacho, were incarcerated. Mounted police charged the crowd and dispersed them with tear gas, clubs and a water cannon. There were no injuries...
...serious question, though, as to how long the euphoria will last. Surinam, which formally becomes independent at midnight this Tuesday, is a polyglot* New England-size former Dutch colony on South America's humid equatorial coast, with some exotic and bitter divisions. The new nation's largest single racial group−129,500 East Indians known locally as Hindustanis−almost universally opposed independence. They feared political and economic repression by the 108,500 Creoles (blacks and mulattoes), most of whom belong to leftist-influenced parties supporting Prime Minister Arron. Joining forces with Surinam...
...white First Baptist Church buses are plying routes across northern Indiana and South Side Chicago, and before the morning is over the drivers will have hauled as many as 10,000 persons to what foot-high signs on the sides of the buses hail as the WORLD'S LARGEST SUNDAY SCHOOL...
Stores Corp. 12%, to $418 million. Carter Hawley Hale Stores Inc., parent of Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman-Marcus, showed an 8.1% increase, to $292 million. Bloomingdale's is a part of Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores, Inc., the nation's largest department-store chain?and Federated turned in one of the best showings of all. Its sales rose 13.4%, to $883 million, in the third quarter, and its profits leaped 46%, to $34 million...