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...Labor Department announced that the Wholesale Price Index jumped .7% in April. Although that was the smallest monthly leap since last October, and little more than half the March rise of 1.3%, there was no cause for celebration. The good news was confined to a 3% drop in wholesale farm-product prices, which should lead to a welcome decline in some retail prices within the next few weeks-but many economists believe that the downward pressure on food is about spent. Industrial products ranging from iron and steel scrap to lumber, cotton, man-made fibers and animal hides rose...
HARVARD'S NEWEST and smallest vocal group may be nuovi, but it isn't dilettantish. Its members have chosen to specialize in music of the Renaissance--music which demands prodigious energy and concentration from the performers--and none of the shortcomings of their concert debut last week at Lowell House could hide a near-professional sensitivity to nuance and detail...
Exxon, the world's largest oil firm, showed the smallest gain: 39%. Its report drew accusations from Wall Street oil analysts quoted by the Associated Press that Exxon had understated its profits by $400 million, and that the true increase was 118%. The money, said the analysts, is being salted away in a reserve fund that would be used to help offset expected losses this year resulting from higher U.S. taxes on the oil industry and from the higher prices that Middle Eastern countries are expected to charge Exxon for crude under revised participation agreements. Both are reasonable expectations...
...will have to raise $250,000 on his own in private gifts of $250 or less (with $5,000 or more coming from at least 20 different states to ensure that he is a truly national candidate). For Senate candidates, the threshold ranges from $25,000 in the smallest states to $125,000 in the largest, to be collected in gifts of $100 or less; aspirants for the House will need $10,000 in gifts of $100 or less...
Strange as it seems, the smallest...