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...profession of the fornicatrix has fallen upon seedy days. Rank amateurs have driven out the pros, giving the career field a bad name, and today's courtesans would rather provide grist for the sociologist's mill than salt for the Sunday supplements...
...come fresh from hearing him read poems about bestiality ("The Sheep Child"), voyeurism and sexual assault ("The Fiend"), the bombing of civilians ("The Firebombing"), and adultery ("Adultery"). "Nothing is excluded from the poetic conscioueness," Dickey proclaims. "Anything that happens to your mind is grist for your mill...
...brother Ben (George C. Scott) is shrewder, abler, more sardonic. Their sister Regina (Anne Bancroft) is ambitious for wealth, power and position. The trio's chance for the big money rests on joining a foxy Chicago manufacturer (William Prince) and sharing the costs of putting up a cotton mill. The key figure in the deal is Regina's husband Horace (Richard A. Dysart), ill in a Baltimore hospital. She orders him brought home and badgers him to ante up their share of the capital...
...industry, Inland last week reported that earnings through the year's first nine months had dropped 29% from 1966 levels. Among other things depressing profits is the cost of Inland's ambitious modernization, including its first basic-oxygen furnace shop and a new computer-controlled hot-strip mill. His eyes turned toward the future, Joe Block has logged $250 million in capital expenditures over the past two years, huge outlays for a company with an annual sales level of about $1 billion...
...grandson of an Inland founder and son of a longtime chairman, Block worked at every end of the business from mill hand up. Elected president in 1953 (he became chairman in 1959), he strengthened Inland's tradition as a civic-minded company by playing a prominent part in the fight for Illinois' fair-employment law, pushing a redevelopment program for East Chicago and, in 1957, putting up Inland's 19-story glass-and-steel headquarters, one of the most striking additions to Chicago's Loop since the Depression...