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Though department stores were worried about Christmas sales, total retail sales held virtually steady for November at a seasonally adjusted $18.6 billion-down only $100 million from October, which rang up the second highest monthly rate in history. Durable-goods sales declined 2% from October, but the losses were partially offset by gains of food stores, restaurants and clothiers. Moreover, the Commerce Department cheerily predicted a sharp rise for December (see chart...
...earphones and hunched over the shoulder of the flight engineer. Poker-faced Press Secretary Pierre Salinger ambled back to the public-address system. "We have just been advised that Mrs. Kennedy has given birth to a baby boy," he announced. "Both mother and son are doing well." The cabin rang with applause...
...week long Havana rang with feverish alarms against "U.S. aggression" and "invasion." Not a day passed without stories that an anti-Castro invasion fleet had sailed from Guatemala, that D-day was coming, that advance forces had already landed in Oriente province...
...conference where Madani was to be put on show as a Nasser spy in the sky. But early that afternoon he excused himself from the group of officers chatting at the club, explaining that he had forgotten to get something in his room. Moments later, a shot rang out, and rushing up, the Jordanians were horrified to find Madani dead on the floor of his room, a bullet through his temple, a pistol at his side...
...billion worth of assets and 30,000 patents, deprived of 60% of its properties by the Russians and Poles, divided into 44 separate companies in the Western zone-including the three major chemical firms now sparking the West German market. In their remarkable comeback, the three companies last year rang up sales of $1.7 billion-more than three times the sales of the entire I. G. Farben trust...