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Purolator President John Pratt said yesterday the robbery is the largest in his company's history. $4.3 million in cash was stolen in Chicago from the company in 1974, but all but $900.000 was recovered. Pratt said. Purolator is one of the nation's largest armored car manufacturers...
...deal with the inflationary plague that is spread by the Government. Certainly wage and price restraint is important, and Stage II is better than outright controls. But excessive Government spending, towering deficits and ever multiplying regulations are also fundamental causes of the price spiral. Says Pfizer's Pratt: "We have told the President, as most companies have, that we will abide by the guidelines. But what the Government itself is doing is a big part of the problem." In short, the nation would benefit tremendously if Washington were to adopt and obey some price guidelines...
Other long-time statisticians are Bob Paine, a fixture since 1946, former baseball captain Bob Fulton, and Rufus Walker, who retired three years ago. Albie Pratt kept track of participation charts for Cavileer until he was appointed assistant Secretary of the Navy during President Eisenhower's administration...
...union leaders to call a strike within five days?illegal though it would be?unless the Postal Service agreed to new negotiations. Postmaster General William F. Bolger rejected the bid. The Postal Service then went to court to seek an injunction. When talks broke down, U.S. District Judge John Pratt issued a six-day temporary restraining order prohibiting union leaders from calling a strike. He also required union officials to send out messages to their members to comply with the injunction...
...main difficulties with Maude Pratt is that she is more convincing as a metaphor than as a character. She is full of biting, often cranky opinions about fame and the effects of patronage on artists. This contrasts with her humid, romantic maunderings on art and incest. It is almost as if Author Theroux were suggesting that Maude's lust for her brother was indistinguishable from her aloof and aristocratic aesthetic...