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...Cheap. Nine of the 14 directors who voted endorsed the proposition, but the deal must be approved this week by the shareholders. Two dissident directors mobilized stockholder opposition by spreading word that a big new stock issue would shrink earnings per share, depressing market values and paving the way for Khashoggi to scoop up more stock on the cheap. Khashoggi, in turn, filed suit against one director for alleged securities-law violations and protested that he was being victimized by a few "individual fanatics." As the vote approached, both the Saudi and his opponents tried to cool the atmosphere...
...because of President Ford's recent suggestion that the country may soon run into some economic problems. Will the folks who run the economy be equal to the occasion? These are the times that try rising young men's souls. The summer aide and the sunshine executive vice president shrink in this hour from the service of their country, and the aides and executive vice presidents of tomorrow will have to learn quickly, so as to take their falling comrades' places in time...
...since we have no surplus left to shrink...
CITY SERVICES. As tax revenues shrink and inflation drives up costs, cities throughout the U.S. are biting into budgets and cutting back on services. In Chicago, 600 people are being trimmed from the city's civil service payroll of some 42,000, and the municipal tuberculosis sanitarium is being closed. New York City faces a revenue shortfall of $150 million, cost rises of $280 million and a projected gross deficit this year of $430 million in a total budget of $11.1 billion; layoffs of 1,510 employees are planned initially, with more to come. Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson complains...
Ford is concerned over mounting social unrest as unemployment rises and benefits for the jobless shrink under mounting pressure on benefit funds...