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...received a master's degree in history from Punjab University. He earned another M.A. in Persian history at Delhi University in 1941 and received a doctorate in Muslim history in 1954 from Punjab University...
...trouble is that the kinds of "cash" being developed in the world's leading consumer economy are proliferating faster than the money managers can find ways to measure them. Among other elements in this unmeasured or "invisible" money stock are the credit lines consumers get with their Visa or Master Charge cards, the borrowing they do with a second or even third mortgage on a home, and the ability of companies to borrow on a line of bank credit, in the commercial paper market or even through an overseas financing subsidiary...
OTTO ECKSTEIN: "The Federal Reserve is taking a tremendous gamble with the economy, that they will succeed in licking inflation without creating another recession as deep as 1974," says Eckstein, a master of computerized forecasting who runs his own company. "They are finally jamming on the brakes, having done too little for a long time." But late as the switch is, Eckstein believes, "it's going to work. The chances are the inflation rate, currently 13.1%, will drop below 9% by February." But Eckstein sees a darker side: "There is no question that the economy is now going...
...with large amounts going to develop fiber optics -systems that carry information in rays of light traveling through slender glass fibers rather than in electric currents moving through bulky cables. IBM's research budget this year will be $1.25 billion, and the company has become the first to master the mass production of a silicon memory chip small enough to pass through the eye of a needle yet able to store 64,000 bits of information. Bell & Howell's Frey maintains it is a myth that only small firms can be innovative, adding that only large corporations have...
Outlandish as it may seem, it is possible that some day Animator Chuck Jones may come to be regarded as the American Buñuel. Like the Spanish master, Jones finds his great subject in obsession, and he understands that finally, all truly memorable comedy results from observing creatures caught helplessly in the grip of irrational, inexplicable passions. Buñuel's obsessives are all sexually motivated; Jones' great creation, Wile E. Coyote, has a loftier theme: the annihilation of that uncannily shrewd nemesis the Road Runner...