Word: slump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solidly played by Will Geer) bounds back into view to report Gaunt's death. Now Shakespeare is partly to blame, for he wrote only eight lines between Gaunt's last words and the announcement of his death. The director should handle this better, however; for example, by having Gaunt slump on stage while being escorted out, or by inventing some business to pad out the eight lines...
...pronouncements were to be limited to the top men-Kennedy, Treasury Secretary Dillon, Commerce Secretary Hodges and Chief Economic Adviser Heller. Even then, they were to be made soaringly, and Heller, in Paris for a 20-nation economic meeting, kept a tight lip when questioned about the stock-market slump...
Though the New York Yankees' Roger Maris, last year's champion with 61 homers, is deep in a batting slump (only eleven homers so far), half a dozen other batsmen are mounting a new assault on the record books. San Francisco's always great Willie Mays leads both leagues with 21. is only ten games behind Maris' 1961 pace; six other players have 15 or more. By last week, baseball's sluggers had cost their respective teams some 1,200 baseballs. With two more teams added to the majors this year, the fans were talking...
...tires. Says West Virginia's research-minded Chairman David Luke: "The paper industry today generates some $12 billion in sales a year. If we took advantage of wood chemicals, we could double that- and the materials would be free." Because it forced them to seek new markets, the slump from which they are now emerging has also turned U.S. papermakers into ardent free traders. Boasts William R. Adams, president of St. Regis Paper Co.: "We're one of the few major American industries that can compete with any area of the world - sometimes even at a tariff disadvantage...
...secretary reporting to his boss: "Mr. Khrushchev said he liked your style in the steel crisis" (see cut). The Trib also carried a Page One editorial arraigning the President as the cause of the market decline. Back in the business section, Financial Editor Donald Rogers not only blamed the slump on Kennedy, but called him an "antibusiness" schemer...