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...annual rate of 10%, will be slowed in the second half of the year-unless wage settlements in labor negotiations get out of hand. Last week the Labor Department released two figures that strongly buttressed the Administration view. Wholesale prices rose in May by only .4%, the smallest rise in nine months and less than half the 1.1% rise in April. At the same time, the unemployment rate dropped to 6.9% in May from April's 7%, the lowest level since November 1974 and a heartening decline from January's 7.3% figure...
Most of the equipment, and half the actors, came from Britain. For Artoo Detoo, the squat little hero robot. Production Designer John Barry found "the smallest man in England...
...certain confusion about her age. Officially it was listed as 69, but she may have been several years older. It was characteristic of her that at a time of life when two or three years no longer make any difference to most people, Joan Crawford insisted on the smallest believable number...
...matter of a tenth of a second, maybe a foot or two. By that smallest of crew victory margins, Penn's heavyweight varsity earned a stunning Adams Cup win over Harvard on the Charles Saturday--and with it, the Quakers shattered the Crimson's 26-race win streak...
American Motors Corp., smallest of the four U.S. automakers, has always been an up-and-down company, but lately it has hit a longer-than-usual losing streak. Beset by both bad luck and bad judgment, A.M.C. lost $73.8 million in its past two fiscal years. Its own accountants warned that the company's ability to stay in business depended partly on whether it could repay or extend bank loans that fell due in early 1977. By the time Chairman Roy Chapin Jr. faced stockholders at the annual meeting last week, that crisis had passed. Chapin told the group...