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...south; it almost certainly would have presented a vastly altered picture if it had included the large industrial, traditionally leftist cities, of the north. Nonetheless, the show of neo-Fascist strength seemed to be a vigorous protest against the wave of strikes and disorders, the rising unemployment and the sluggish pace of reforms that have afflicted Italy for the past three years. Said Socialist Giacomo Mancini, whose party is the second strongest in the ruling coalition: "The M.S.I, would not have gained so much if the coalition had defended, sustained and carried forward reforms in housing, health and schools...
...their parents. My hunch is that this axiom is no longer good, at least among collegians. Almost every student I talked to this spring said that he and his friends were more liberal than their parents, and they intended to vote in 1972 if at all possible. The sluggish progress of states toward ratifying the constitutional amendment giving 18-year-olds the vote, coupled with disputed residency rules, may keep many from voting in near-campus elections. Still, hundreds are interviewing candidates and canvassing local voters. Among current presidential prospects, Nixon is mistrusted at best, loathed at worst. Though admired...
...abbreviated Teletype messages dribble endlessly into offices in Saigon, printing out the cold statistics of blood and violence. At times the tempo is feverish, at times sluggish...
...Before then, industry leaders expect to be operating at flat-out capacity and to surpass their alltime quarterly production record of 28.5 million tons. Partly because of that pace, the nation's economy is expected to show a gain in the second quarter but then enter a sluggish third quarter, when the steel mills will be either shut down by a strike or slowed down while customers live off their stockpiles...
Merrill Lynch, which under Chairman Donald Regan has become the best managed house in the business, is in a strong position to issue its shares. Last year, when many other brokerage firms barely stayed afloat, the firm earned $40.7 million. Though its general brokerage business was sluggish, it made money on commodities trading and notably its Government bond trading operation. In the first quarter of this year, as stock trading surged back, Merrill Lynch earned an estimated $25 million...