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...crops North. As a result, the price of oranges, strawberries and other perishables will rise. Because of material shortages, Armco Steel Corp. closed its Columbus plant indefinitely, throwing 565 people out of work. Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and U.S. Steel may close their plants in Youngstown. Strike leaders predict that unless the Government offers them a more satisfactory deal, food shortages will begin to crop up early this week in major cities in the East and Midwest...
...Communists now appear to have enough materiel stockpiled to sus tain major fighting for at least twelve months, Western intelligence experts do not expect them to launch a serious offensive in the near future. Nonetheless, Western analysts have a notably poor record deciphering Communist intentions; they failed to predict the massive offensives of Tet 1968 and Easter 1972. The frequency of the cease-fire viola tions convinces South Vietnamese lead ers that Hanoi has not abandoned its aim to take over the entire South...
Some economists in Egypt and elsewhere question spending $1 billion to $1.5 billion to enlarge a facility already made partially obsolete by the new pipelines and bigger tankers. Others predict that the "Nasser plan," calling for improvements to be carried out in two four-year stages under 40% foreign financing, will pay off with annual revenues from tolls of $600 million, compared with a pre-1967 income of $250 million a year. Egyptian officials claim that they will have no trouble raising the capital if they go ahead with the project. "We are already getting offers," says a Canal Authority...
James S. Duesenberry, Maier Professor of Money and Banking, said yesterday that most economists were expecting "at least another 7 per cent" increase in the consumer price index, but he added that it is difficult to predict...
Broken down into categories, the results fill 1,000 pages of computer printouts which are designed to help predict how types of people from the particular community might be expected to react as jurors. There are, says Schulman, significant regional differences. In Harrisburg, polling indicated that women would be more friendly to the defense than men. They promised to be harsher in Gainesville, and the same as men in St. Paul. Following their predictive profiles, the defense looked in Harrisburg for working-class Lutherans, Roman Catholics and Brethren, a pacifist sect in the area. In Gainesville, defense lawyers tried...