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ARRIVING for an inspection trip in Bucharest last week, Nikita Khrushchev seemed weary, listless, and troubled by the heat. Briefly, Khrushchev recovered his remarkable vigor, then sagged again as an aide read one speech and Khrushchev canceled another address entirely. Clearly, at 68, the top man in the Kremlin is beginning to lose his bounce. He is overweight (5 ft. 5 in., almost 200 lbs.) has high blood pressure and a heart condition. According to one rumor, he is receiving injections of water and procaine (better known by the trade name Novocain), a dubious treatment devised by a Rumanian woman...
...seats, and he would still have a majority. The Liberals, who have only 51 seats, and hold not one single seat in a province west of Ontario, could pick up 81 more seats and still not be able to form a government. As of last week, when a generally listless campaign came awake with lively heckling of both candidates, the betting was that the race is neck and neck and still...
Along with New York's, nearly all the world's stock markets have been sagging for months. In some cases, the causes were local: the London Exchange reflected the generally listless state of the British economy and the government's eleven-month-old drive to prevent wage rises while the Tokyo Exchange was unsettled by the momentarily parlous state of Japan's balance of payments. But in most of the world's financial centers, brokers attributed their troubles to the fact that investors, preoccupied with capital growth, had run stock prices up to levels...
...every one of them.'' Patterson's failure to predict any rise in AMF shares in the near future was coldly realistic: together with dozens of other glamour issues that have hit bottom since last fall, AMF stock is caught in the grip of a stubbornly listless stock market...
...time he joined Romney seven years ago, Abernethy had won a formidable reputation as a Packard dealer ($1,000,000 worth of cars in a single year in Hartford, Conn.) and as sales vice president of Willys Motors. At A.M.C. he put new life into a listless sales organization by flying 50,000 miles a year to spread Romney's gospel of the compact car. Cross, a quiet, analytical attorney, drew up the 1954 merger papers that created A.M.C. from Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Co., became a director of the company the same year, and a member...