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...East Berlin side of the Wall. Presumably deciding the dogs were Western spies, the Gropos opened fire. Badly wounded, the sheep dog managed to struggle back to West Berlin. The dachshund lay writhing at the foot of the Wall until a Gropo finally beat it to death with a shovel...
...away from public notice. The ruling trio: courtly Chairman Colin Y. Syme, 59. a Melbourne lawyer; Managing Director Norman E. Jones, 58, a quiet chemist and metallurgist; and impatient Ian M. McLennan, 52, chief general manager, who joined B.H.P. in 1933 in a cadet engineer's "pick-and-shovel" job. Travelling tirelessly, Syme, Jones and McLennan leave so little authority to underlings that until recently B.H.P. plant managers were forbidden to make expenditures of more than $225 without permission. The limit has now been raised...
...coal and metals. At the moment. Japanese industry is overstocked with raw materials. And Japanese businessmen have not yet forgotten the disappointing results of their nation's last trade treaty with Russia. After signing the agreement with much fanfare two years ago, the Soviets began to shovel their own products into Japan as fast as possible while delaying acceptance of Japanese goods by endless haggling over prices and terms of payment...
...chapel builders have put in more than 500 hours of hard labor on Saturdays, Thursday evenings, and early mornings, mostly on such relatively simple tasks as painting and pouring concrete. Utah's Governor George Dewey Clyde, who lives in the ward, put in one enthusiastic session with a shovel. Henry D. Moyle. an oil company millionaire who is counselor to Church President David McKay, has been over to the chapel project twice, promises to do some carpentering later...
...house persuaded his bank to give him a whopping $42,500 mortgage at the reasonable rate of 5¾%. Chicago banks, whose mortgage rates ran as high as 6% just 18 months ago, are now charging as little as 5¼%. One Brooklyn bank is so eager to shovel out mortgage money that its appraisers cruise out to house sites in telephone-equipped cars so that they can report back faster. Says one San Francisco banker: "I'm dickering for a house loan myself. It's a good time...