Word: mid-august
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...latest evidence seems to have convinced even skeptical economists that business is indeed about to emerge from almost a year of falling production and profits, fast price rises and sky-high borrowing costs. Lionel D. Edie & Co., a New York economic consulting firm, cautioned clients in mid-August that the indicators showed no clear signal, but its latest advisory predicts a recovery starting in the fourth quarter. Dr. F. Thomas Juster, vice president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, which decides what business movements should be deemed "recessions," says he now doubts that the bureau will call the present...
Consumer Gloom. On the other hand, 58% of the consumers queried in a mid-August Louis Harris poll said that the nation is in a recession and they see no early recovery. They have no confidence in the forecasts of an ebbing of inflation either. Some 44% of those questioned in the latest poll, released last week, told Harris interviewers that they expected prices to rise faster than their own incomes in the next few years; only 9% predicted that their pay would go up more than prices...
Young players are hungry players, and the team has no fat old men. Rookie Manager Sparky Anderson, himself the majors' youngest pilot at 36, starts his line-up card with five .300 hitters. They have a mid-August total of 118 home runs, and the oldest man among them is 28. The first batter an opposing pitcher has to face is Outfielder Pete Rose, who is pursuing his third straight batting title with a .328 average. Next comes Bobby Tolan, a .317-hitting centerfielder who has learned to add insult to injury by becoming baseball's most accomplished...
...Virginia. New sub-developments of ticky-tack are going up nearby the site of Bull Run. A group of about one hundred enraged teeny-boppers stoned the police headquarters in nearby Falls Church, a pretty upper middle-class city about ten miles from the District of Columbia border, in mid-August. The police had busted a bopper for beating up on one of their informers who had recently turned in a few other boppers for pushing grass and possession...
...broke out along the Sinkiang-Kazakhstan border, and in the past month, Peking and Moscow have exchanged serious charges. Peking accused the Russians of causing an astounding 429 border incidents in June and July alone. Moscow countered last week by charging China with 488 frontier violations between June and mid-August, and warned that further encroachments "will be most resolutely rebuffed...