Word: stocked
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Except for Yale and Carnegie Tech, universities until a decade or so ago left the training of theater professionals to such hard-knocks schools as Broadway or summer stock. Drama was mostly taught through extracurricular "little theaters" and courses scissored into English departments. Sometimes, as at Northwestern, the training was conducted with style and produced an abundant number of graduates who became actors...
carefully broke that word after the stock market closed late last week, there was enough disquieting news about autos and other sectors of the economy (see THE NATION) to cause all auto stocks to sink to 1966 lows...
Behind the slight fall-off in industry sales are many factors: the armed forces' draft of almost 400,000 young potential buyers, the stock market drop, the slower expansion in consumer credit caused by tight money. Detroit's experts figure that, excluding imports, production will dip from last year's 8,700,000 to 8,350,000 this year, and to 8,000,000 in calendar 1967-which would still make it a very good year...
...does have drawbacks. Its lightweight, plastic butt is liable to shatter in hand-to-hand combat, where the infantryman often clobbers his enemy with the stock. Moreover, its high sight -necessitated by the carrying handle that serves as the rear sighting plane-means that a dug-in rifleman must expose his head and chest to aim carefully. But the rapid rate of fire more than compensates: in Korea with the slow-firing Garand, less than one-quarter of the troops fired their weapons in battle; in Viet Nam with the M16, everyone fires copiously. Many riflemen lug 600 rounds into...
Sunrise Serenade. The Zurich bank, which occupies sleek second-floor offices on the Schützengasse, is a Swiss-chartered joint stock company with initial assets of $2.3 million. It has been christened Wozchod Handelsbank, or Sunrise Commercial Bank; Chairman Albert Nikolaevich Belishchenko, 36, a career banker who was formerly vice-director of Moscow's Gosbank, says the name refers to the spaceships that the Russians launched in 1964 and 1965. Belishchenko takes pains to allay Swiss fears that Moscow will use the bank to dump gold and otherwise disrupt the tiny nation's financial ties to other...