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Regardless of Lindsay's prospects next year, his latest spurt of activity keeps his pennant flapping smartly. The trip to Los Angeles again showed him to be the consummate campaigner. Considering his official mission-to boost New York City Opera Company's opening-he traveled heavy. In addition to Mrs. Lindsay, he took his press secretary, a deputy mayor, a speechwriter and his TV consultant. Not that he appeared to need help. From the ladies in the audience Lindsay elicited the usual sighs of "divine," "beautiful." And in an even dozen appearances before students, lawyers, reporters, business leaders...
...four hours before the strike deadline. Though Chrysler was hardly happy with the generous settlement it had been forced to accept, Company Negotiators John D. Leary and William E. O'Brien greeted the accord with relief. The smallest of the Big Three automakers has been enjoying a sales spurt fueled partly by the strike at Ford. Last month was Chrysler's best October ever-and only by averting a strike could it hope to keep its momentum...
...nation managed to attack, antagonize or alienate so many of its neighbors in a single week. All around its vast perimeter, in a great circle from Russia and Japan on the north to India and Indonesia on the south, China stirred up trouble and resentment. The sudden spurt of hostility seemed prompted by an overflow of missionary zeal for Maoism, a certain amount of frustration at the difficulties encountered at home by Mao's Cultural Revolution and a new wave of China's historic xenophobia...
...savings spurt began late last year, after banks and savings and loan associations raised the interest rates to com pete with the soaring rates offered by the bond market. Recently, consumers have been especially anxious to rebuild accounts shrunken during 1966 in anticipation of a tax increase and out of economy jitters. "The consumer and his family have been expecting the worst," says Chase Manhattan Bank Vice President John Deaver. "It takes them a while to get used to the idea that things are getting better...
Teachers were falsely told that the test would show which pupils were due to "spurt ahead" academically. The teachers were given the names of 20 percent of the student body, randomly selected from all grades and all three tracks, and were told that every pupil so listed would improve dramatically within a year...