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...such a trip, many of the Israeli stereotypes of Arab laziness or incompetence are invalidated. It is true that the Arabs of the West Bank reap only half as many tons of wheat per dunam as the Jews in Israel, for instance, and that their yield in grapes or tomatoes is only one-third of the Israeli produce. But this is because much Arab labor is unskilled and there is a scarcity of capital investment in the predominantly agricultural economy of the West Bank. If one keeps that in mind one must conclude that the Arabs are doing well...
...test of RFK's electoral strength will be California. If he ekes out the necessary plurality over Johnson and McCarthy, he will at least still be in the running, which is to say able to reap the reward if the President falters. If, on the other hand, Kennedy achieves no better than 35 per cent, as against, say, 40 per cent for LBJ and 25 per cent for McCarthy, he will have died a quiet death and be remembered, if at all, as "that other Kennedy...
...headed by Robert A. Katz, secretary and counsel of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Inc. Besides advance payments of $200,000 apiece, royalties from the two companies could eventually amount to $5,000,000 a year. And because Strickman refuses to grant exclusive licenses, the foundation could still hope to reap far bigger returns from any-or all-of the leading U.S. cigarette companies. Even Columbia would not be left out in the cold. Though the university formally severed all ties with the filter, Strickman nonetheless designated its medical school as the foundation's chief beneficiary...
Teamsters v. Teamsters. Detroit has turned into a comedy of strikes. No sooner had the Press and News stopped publishing than three interim papers sprang up, ready to reap lush profits. Interestingly enough, the Teamsters, who had called the strike in the first place, were intimately involved in the publication of two of the new papers. All went swimmingly until the Teamsters' local demanded the same stiff wage increase from the interim papers that they had asked of the dailies: a 10% hike over two years, plus a $46 benefit package. Teamsters wanted the papers to hire...
...force from 22,000 to 32,000 clerks over the past 18 months. Even so, says President William Fleming of Walston & Co., "there are just not enough trained employees to handle this heavy volume." Other brokers fault the stock exchanges for clinging to manpower-wasting procedures while their members reap a bonanza of commission profits...