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There followed a dozen hours of official indifference and indignity-including an apparent slowdown by deputies in booking the detainees, who were kept 80 to a cell. It was not until late in the afternoon that the wrongest man in Palo Alto was finally mugshot, fingerprinted and given a summons to appear in court this week on a charge of "rioting." Barkley and a number of fellow straight defendants say they may sue for false arrest. Among them are Namon J. Nichols, a 31-year-old electrical engineer, and Stanford University Professor William R. Kincheloe, 44. They joined Barkley...
Nixon's house economists are gambling on an upturn by midsummer, and experts like Leif Olsen, senior vice president and economist of First National City Bank, see a lessening of inflation. No one has more riding on an inflationary slowdown than Nixon himself. As a political mathematician, he need only look at economics statistics to realize that few groups have been hit harder by the recession than the usually secure middle class of the West and Midwestern industrial centers that helped him to victory...
Events seemed to justify Heath's doomsaying. The four-day national newspaper strike in early June and a slowdown by doctors unsettled the la bor scene. More important, the trade figures for May, made public only three days before the election, showed a sharp dip of $74 million, shaking voters' confidence in Wilson's assurances about the economy's strength...
...reducing taxes and inflation. Another 250,000 hours were wasted in unofficial strikes led by the Maoists. Result: Fiat has had to scale down this year's production target from 1.8 million vehicles to 1.55 million, and it has a backlog of 250,000 unfilled orders. The production slowdown has allowed foreign competition to establish a significant foothold for the first time in the old Fiat fief. Imports have risen to a record 25.7% of the Italian auto market for the first five months of this year, up from 10% for the same period...
...President Nixon's first full month in office. It went down from 78.1 in this year's first quarter to 75.4 in the second. Because the findings have always led the changes in the economy by at least one quarter, the survey takers predict that the present slowdown will extend through the third quarter and probably until year's end. If so. the recession will have lasted twelve months, the longest stretch since...