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...deal serves a double purpose for American by finding a use for the transports at a time when the market for used planes is sour. With jets and turboprops coming into service, every airline is trying to sell its obsolete craft, and prices are down sharply. By turning DC-7Bs into freighters with 16¾ton capacity and 360-plus m.p.h. speeds (2¼ tons more, 55 m.p.h. faster than DC-6A freighters), American not only avoids the risk of taking a big loss, but also gives itself a leg up in a vigorous young business that is just beginning...
...week's end, trooping to the polls for the second, runoff round of National Assembly elections, French voters confirmed this sour tribute to the power of the Gaullist label. Clinging to De Gaulle's coattails, the hastily organized U.N.R. (Union for the New Republic) emerged as France's biggest party (26.5% of the vote), won half again as many Assembly seats (187) as any other party. Counting the conservative Independents (120) and the 67 Deputies from Algeria, more than two-thirds the members of the new Assembly were elected on tickets appealing essentially to a right-wing...
When a fellow takes out his tooth these days, the prime requirement is that she be a jazz bomb. He, for his part, is expected to make sure the coals are right for picking up the tab. Sometimes, of course, the heap plays sour, but more often the music is really served-served like a cloud, in fact. And if the sinatra is a keg, every number is liable to get real oblique...
...spinster munching sour grapes. In the land of the rising woman, where a husband used to control his yen, millions of wives are buying stock by cutting corners and snipping off a larger hunk of the family pay envelope. As a result, Japan is having its biggest investment boom in history. This year 9,000,000 shareholders will invest $5.5 billion v. $4 billion last year; investment trusts have increased 50%, and savings accounts have risen 20% to $17 billion...
Radcliffe does not wash her face when she sips coffee at the Bick, and whether she wears gym suits or tweed suits to examinations is beside the point. Fair or foul, Harvard undergraduates join to welcome the Annex to their examination rooms. Sour grapes only make bitter wine...