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...holiday greeting to his 110,000 employees, Industrialist Alfried Krupp could not resist a reference to West Germany's economic woes and a sober prophecy that 1967 "will not bring any relief." It was a message that all of his countrymen could ponder: after years of heady prosperity, West Germany seems to be caught in a swinging door between present inflation and potential recession...
...lost his last job as a truck loader because of his troubles. In November, he was arrested for burglary and disorderly conduct, after a policeman found him urinating under a porch near a just-robbed Chicago restaurant. He now faces trial on those charges, forcing yet another jury to ponder the endless case of the police v. Escobedo...
Voracious Appetite. That is a question that programming Vice Presidents Len Goldberg (ABC), Mike Dann (CBS) and Mort Werner (NBC) ponder in the small hours of the night. Their major problem is that, in prime time alone, the three of them are responsible for filling 75 hours a week. "We do not suffer," Goldberg says, in the understatement of the minute, "from an overdose of good shows." That is because TV obviously suffers from a severe underdose of talent. There are just not enough good writers and performers to satisfy television's voracious appetite, so even the best entertainers...
...this serves to give Stephen Longstreet the chance to let his near-assimilated Jewish-Americans ponder the quality of their Judaism and their allegiance to it. They also get drawn into a fierce proxy fight for Mama's bank account, and one of the characters even drifts behind the Iron Curtain for a little daring-do. Longstreet, who has written several screenplays and a hit musical (High Button Shoes) as well as eight other novels, is an old hand at story spinning. The pattern here is familiar, but it is a nice piece of goods all the same...
...future, after all, is what the stock market is really about. And in their offices in the financial canyon of lower Manhattan, James Thomson and his Thundering Herd constantly ponder the possibilities of tomorrow, next month, next year and next decade. In their own expansion plans, Thomson & Co. are betting heavily on a bright market future. "The biggest problem facing Merrill Lynch right now," says Thomson, "is to be in a position to handle bigger volume when it comes. And we believe it is coming...