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...whittling of empire or sag in sterling seems able to weaken the national virus that makes Britons crave distant and sometimes eccentric adventure. Following a long line from Captain Bligh to Sir Francis Chichester, countless modern Englishmen still seek out high mountains or arctic wastes, race over deserts, relentlessly push through tropical jungles. The latest of that intrepid breed-and Britain's new nautical hero -tottered ashore at Portsmouth last week from the tubby 36-ft. yawl in which he had circled the globe alone. Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood...
...reach a peak with his murder of Margaret Whitehead, who is Nat's suppressed love and his sole victim. He has been unable to kill at any other point in the insurrection, and after her death there is even a decline in the momentum of the uprising and a sag in the tension. It is almost as if Nat gains a previously unknown compassion for white people because of her death. This seems to be Styron's view as he puts New Testament words of charity in Nat's head thereafter, and portrays him committing an unprecedented act of mercy...
...Walter Wilson. "But trying to persuade people to stop lying in the sun for hours is as difficult as getting them to give up smoking." Simply put, suntans may look good but they are very bad medicine. The sun's rays eventually cause the skin to wrinkle and sag, aging effects seen most clearly on the back of a cowboy's neck. The rays also produce lentigines, the brown marks often called liver spots. By far the worst result, however, is skin cancer...
General Motors, for whatever comfort it could find, was not alone in its sales and earnings sag. Enough corporations held annual meetings and reported first-quarter results last week so that patterns became clear. Surveying 514 companies, the New York Times found their combined profits off 7.3%, compared to last year. A similar survey by the Wall Street Journal of 468 companies showed after-tax earnings down 9% for the quarter. The sharpest drops were in autos, steel, rails, textiles, aircraft and building materials. Moderate gains were registered in office equipment, petroleum, tobacco, publishing and utilities. Here, too, the news...
...this week, idling 4,400. At Westinghouse's Metuchen, N.J., color TV plant, 600 employees have been laid off since December; the company's Columbus, Ohio, appliance plant has cut back from three shifts to one. The Federal Reserve Board reported last week that the nationwide sag in retail sales persisted in January, while its index of overall industrial production fell by a full point to 157.9% of its 1957-59 average. Factory orders for durable goods dropped by a worrisome 5.1%, to the lowest level in 15 months, as the downturn spread to transportation equipment, primary metals...