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...wages for 20 years-if even then. But wages in the past twelve months have soared 14%, wiping out.a productivity gain of 7%. Businessmen have covered part of the increase by raising prices (Germany's export prices have increased 4.2% over the past year). Gone are the plump times when German firms could simultaneously finance all investment from profits, add lavishly to reserves and pay handsome dividends. Wrote the business-oriented daily Frankfurter Allgemeine: "We have long since ceased being a model, and instead are increasingly coming to be a horrible example. We are running wildly into the inflationary...
...unusually clear diction. His voice is well produced throughout his range. Elaine Malbin shows considerable skill as an actress in the part of Lilli Vanessi (and Katherine). Miss Malbin, however, might be shown to better advantage in a conventional theatre where her diminutive stature would not convey the slightly plump appearance it does on an arena state. Her voice seems to have lost power in its lower range over the last two years without compensating gains...
...that post less than a year, Ted Heath's reputation was put to the test in the ordeal of the Suez crisis. For weeks a top-to-bottom split in Tory ranks threatened to topple the government. In night after night of impassioned debate, Ted Heath's plump, pink face bobbed up wherever, as one M.P. says, "there was a soul to be saved." Convinced that it was too perilous a time for a general election, he averted that disaster almost singlehanded...
...newly elected president of the Japan Chemical Society, Masaharu Doi, 68, speaks for an industry that has increased its production 500% (to $2.9 billion a year) since 1950. But shy, plump Lawyer Doi, an expert on the proper chanting of ancient Japanese ballads, speaks with an even more powerful voice as the de facto chief of the most flourishing of Japan's former zaibatsu (family trusts). Propelled into the presidency of the Sumitomo Chemical Co. in 1947 when Occupation purges eliminated all his seniors, Doi got around U.S. directives to split up the zaibatsu by organizing the White Water...
Last week a plump Montclair, N.J., housewife was working hard at closing the string gap: aided by a Guggenheim grant, Carleen Maley Hutchins was devising the members of a new family of seven stringed instruments-including a vertical viola...