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Mihajlov is the rebellious writer who barely escaped a nine-month jail sentence last year for a series of articles he wrote on Russia. This time his crime was to proclaim that he and half a dozen friends planned to publish a magazine with the frank intent of opposing the government. Its name would be Slobodni Glas (Free Voice) and it would seek to replace one-party rule with a brand of democratic socialism first bruited by Partisan Hero Milovan Djilas, once Yugoslavia's top Communist theoretician but currently a prisoner for his corrosive anti-Marxist critiques...
...recently, such news, taken straight, would have given the stock market a case of jitters; only two weeks before, word of lackluster early-May sales had helped drive the Dow-Jones industrial average to a nine-month low of 864.14. Last week, Wall Street took the nicely sweetened pill with barely a tremor. And the Dow-Jones average closed the week at 897.04, up 20.15, which represented the biggest week-long rise since last July...
Less altruistically, professors contend that although they got an 11% pay increase to shift from a nine-month year to ten months, they find that they are carrying loads 25% heavier. They object to being "out of step with the rest of the academic world," find it tough to mesh their summer study plans with the requirement that each must work half of each summer trimester...
...Rose jumped, this time toward Broadway. In 1930 he produced Corned Beef and Roses. It was a loser from overture to finale. He rewrote it, renamed it Sweet and Low. Again it bombed. Again he rewrote it, renamed it Crazy Quilt, and took it on the road for a nine-month run. Rose recouped the $75,000 it cost him to mount it and made $240,000 profit besides...
...look also at some of the statistics that most closely affect the Soviet citizen's welfare. Definitive figures will become available only when the central statistical administration publishes its 1965 report next January, but it is possible to make the following estimates on the basis of the official nine-month report and recent speeches by Kosygin, Polyansky and I. T. Novikov. Within the overall volume of industrial production, the targets for producer goods will easily be overfulfilled, while those for consumer goods (one quarter of the total) will not be met. The gross agricultural product will have grown...