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...pulling inventories into line with sales produces what is known as a V-shaped recession: production plunges until inventories are sold, then shoots up again when new orders are placed. That could occur this time, but it seems more likely that the inventories will be worked off slowly and rebuilt equally slowly and that the turn-around will be barely noticeable when it comes...
Died. Josef Krips, 72, Vienna-born conductor who rebuilt the musical life of his war-ravaged birthplace from 1945 to 1950, later led London's Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo's Philharmonic and San Francisco's resurgent symphony, and was renowned for mellow "singing" interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven; of lung cancer; in Geneva...
Fans of Myra Breckinridge-that beautiful, transsexual, all-American succubus-will recall that she was last seen in a hospital bed after having the silicon knocked out of her by a hit-and-run driver. To save her life, Dr. Mengers rebuilt and re-endowed her as Myron Breckinridge: the man, in fact, who Myra had originally been before a sex-change operation transformed him into a her. Though the doctor fashioned a generous "rehnquist" for the new Myron, he did not provide him with a set of "powells...
...President's problems "have to do with selling cars," but added that "generally speaking, there is a lack of confidence on the part of the consumers in this country, and we believe that it has affected car sales in 1974. We would hope this confidence could be rebuilt." Chairman Henry Walker Jr., of the Honolulu-based Amfac, Inc., says that, "with Nixon safely out of the way," his company plans to move ahead on delayed plans to expand food-processing plants in Alaska and on the West Coast...
Today the city that Fields fled is struggling hard, and with some success, to solve the great problem facing all major urban centers: how to make life attractive downtown. During the past two decades, Philadelphia has protected and rebuilt its historic core for people, not automobiles. As a result, the city is one of the few large American metropolises where walking in the center of town can be a pleasure...