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Inspired by the early success of U.S. controls, Edward Heath's Conservative government has imposed a variety of price restraints. Even so, food prices have gone up 7.2% since January, and consumer prices as a whole 4.3%. The inflation rate is still 9% per year. To slow it, Heath this month announced his Phase III-to a national chorus of "Let's-wait-and-see" doubts. Sometimes indeed it seems as if the whole country is suffering from what Author Arthur Koestler calls the "Struthonian Effect" -or the Ostrich Syndrome...
McManama has achieved the greatest success thus far. Not only has he made an NHL team, but he centers a line composed of two all-star wings. He has compiled three assists and one goal, the goal being the game-winner last Saturday night against California...
Canadians also witnessed the success of several college players in the NHL--like former Montreal Canadian goalie Ken Dryden (Cornell...
Refreshing Tendency. Tupperware is not the only ingredient in the Dart success formula. The company's crack chemicals division, which is expected to show a 40% surge in profits this year, was put together in 1960 to produce polyethylene. It now has 170 U.S. and 460 foreign patents. Both G.E. and Exxon have become licensees. More important in Dart's view, the division contributes product technology to the company's other units, like Tupperware. By merger, Dart has also moved into fabricated plastic products and glass bottles...
Acid Bath. Technological superiority is as important in drag racing as it is in the nuclear arms race. In fact, Bill Jenkins' success results less from his skill as a driver ("A monkey can drive one of these things down a straight track," he says) than from his knack as an engineer. A farm boy from Downingtown, Pa., he dropped out of Cornell University's engineering school in 1953 after his father died. He made his living for several years building engines and preparing race cars for competition, before deciding in 1965 to drive them himself in order...