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...junior inside took the ball ten yards inside the midfield line and dribbled through the two Tigers who were guarding him. When he approached the penalty area, he right-footed a low liner that hooked past the diving goalie into the lower left corner of the goal...
...Supermarket boycotts spread like butter on a sizzling griddle last week. Encouraged by reports that several shopping-cart blockades the week before had forced the great chains to lower some prices, housewives marched in more than 100 cities. Placard-waving pickets popped up in places as disparate as Pittsburgh and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Washington, B.C. and Lubbock, Texas. Esther Peterson, the former Utah schoolteacher who is the President's special assistant for consumer affairs, egged on a band of New York City demonstrators, urging them to "vote with the dollar...
When both the nation's biggest automaker and its biggest steelmaker report substantially lower earnings, headline readers would normally conclude that the economy is in a bad way. But 1966 is anything but normal, and last week's news of lower profits in autos and steel failed to upset the relative optimism among chart watchers in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Washington-not to mention Wall Street...
Steelmen faced much the same paradox as automen: pinched profits amid strong sales. Among the six major steelmakers reporting for the third quarter last week, higher earnings were registered by two-Bethlehem and Jones & Laughlin-and lower earnings by four -National, Armco, Inland and, most significantly, U.S. Steel. That giant's profits were off 14%, to $62 million, but its directors raised the quarterly dividend from 500 to 600, and they would not have done so unless they felt that the company could comfortably stick with the higher dividend. Industry analysts expect that steel production this year will reach...
...negated by the inexorable rise in state and local taxes-which last year amounted to an average $266 for every man, woman and child in the country. The problem will grow as state and local governments are forced to spend much more on rapidly rising populations. Despite the recently lower birth rate, Dr. Philip M. Hauser, a University of Chicago population expert, reported last week that the U.S. can count on 65 million more Americans by 1985-an increase equal to the combined present populations of England and Scandinavia...