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Remembering that large inventories collected dust in warehouses after the economy slid in 1970, businessmen are particularly chary about stockpiling more materials and supplies. The inventory-to-sales ratio for manufacturing and trade-that is, the stockpile of goods relative to one month's sales at current rates-dropped to a thin 1.53 in November v. 1.56 the month before and 1.66 in November...
...suggest that Mr. Krauss get his head out of his ass. It's okay to be pseudo-intellectual, but about the Dead? Bespeaking the "underbelly of the acid experience"? "A cathartic ooze slid over the hall...
...whiskey. He lost many of his important legislative battles in Washington, and was even less successful on the national political scene. In 1952 and 1956 he campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President; his only reward was the vice-presidential spot in 1956, from which he and Adlai Stevenson slid to a second landslide defeat at the hands of Eisenhower...
...opened onto forty minutes of brilliant musical improvisation. The unruly crowd was awed in silence as Godcheaux and Garcia led the band into a coldly crystalline atonal frame of mind. Winding on through "Me and My Uncle," they eventually ended the place by returning to "Anthem." A cathartic ooze slid over the hall, exactly the kind of communal satisfaction that follows the successful completion of any artistic whole. Renewal. Too bad that the Dead slipped back into a perfunctory closing of the concert...
...scarcely remember when the House of Representatives had ever acquiesced so easily and completely to a far-ranging piece of legislation. Last week President Nixon's proposal to reduce federal taxes for both corporations and individuals-the other major part of his domestic economic program besides Phase II-slid through the lower house without even a roll-call vote. Its quick passage was evidence of just how commandingly the President has seized the economic issue, and how willing Congress had been to let him have...