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...roaring students, "Britain can expect to increase her wealth by no less than 41%." Then the fun began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing a wintry smile and, progressively, two ripe tomatoes, a ghoulish facial paste of flour and eggs, wreaths of toilet paper and, finally, foamy spray from a battery of fire extinguishers. Among the other casualties: a photographer kayoed by a huge cabbage featly thrown, a constable hurled through a plate-glass window, four exuberant students collared for what...
...through to the discount-rate reductions. But last week they grumbled that the cut was not big enough. Said President George Champion of the Chase Manhattan Bank, second biggest in the U.S.: "This is only a token adjustment and not as much as will be needed. The time is ripe to loosen up much more on reserve requirements...
Last week New Jersey-born Bruce Sagan, now a ripe 29, broadened his reach by putting up more than $1,000,000 to buy the 52-year-old Economist, a bustling biweekly whose Southtown and Southeast editions blanket 22% of metropolitan Chicago-including the Lake Calumet area, where Chicago is building a vast new industrial complex on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The ad-fat Economist (circ. 152,000), which has more, than 100 staffers, also has a battling tradition. Example: crying "land steal," it has vociferously fought grandiose plans for a convention palace on the lake front, as decreed long...
...gave her first concert. While rehearsing for it, she asked her father what would happen if she made a mistake. He told her that people would be there ready to let fly with rotten eggs and vegetables, demonstrated when she missed a note by throwing a ripe tomato at her. Ruth played brilliantly, had critics raving. "Not since Mozart . ." one began...
Connoisseurs of the French scene have learned to grade local political ferment in terms of what they call ripeness. Last week, after 26 days without a government, France's political cheese was about as ripe as it could get without rotting on the shelf...