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...corner to fame, as happens so frequently in the U.S. They developed their coordinated skill in a long line of one-night stands. They actually went off to the beer cellars of Hamburg to become fully professional. When they recorded Love Me Do in 1962, they began their giddy spiral to fame...
...range, Machines Bull distributed RCA models with scant profit. With 80% of its output rented instead of sold, the company gradually discovered that it was not receiving income enough to amortize its nine plants. Machines Bull stepped up its borrowing, cut back on research, and chopped prices. The downward spiral had begun...
...Suitors. In a desperate effort to stop the spiral, bankers moved to direct a financial reorganization, and the government sent an engineer into the director general's office to supervise operations. But Callies held defiantly on as president, proposed that G.E. be allowed to buy into Machines Bull. Now that Callies has been rebuffed, the government may have some difficulty arranging its own solution. It wants to marry Machines Bull to such other French electronics firms as Compagnie Générale de Télégraphic Sans Fil, Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston, and Compagnie...
...latest movement of the consumer price index did little to assuage fears of another inflation spiral. What a consumer could buy for $105.80 in December 1962 cost him $107.60 last December-the biggest price jump in five years. Much of the increase comes from a severe freeze in the South that drove up prices of fruits and vegetables, which figure heavily in the Labor Department's index; but prices are also up in other areas, from transportation to movie tickets. One hopeful fact: wholesale prices, whose rise is essential in any real inflationary movement, actually registered a slight decline...
...branches, such as algebra and geometry, rather than teaching them as separate topics. The stress is on "discovery"-the artful question that sparks a child's desire to see patterns and find answers. The idea is to get children inside the structure of numbers by means of a "spiral curriculum"-constant re-translation of concepts at higher orders of sophistication...