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...Harvard Business School thinks that the economy is in "a sidewise movement" after "an inadequate recovery." One top corporate economist calls the present economy "a rolling kind of thing"; another figures it is in "a sputtering phase"; and still another calls it "the pause that recesses." Probably the most succinct characterization comes from Chairman Walter S. Baird, of Boston's Baird-Atomic, Inc., who sighs, "The economy is puzzled...
...before him in peacetime. He also expected that the U.S. Government would collect more of them-93 billion-than ever before. Congressmen and commentators agreed that the budget balance was "precarious''-which was not only a prudent acknowledgment that federal spending tends to exceed plans, but a succinct observation on the insignificance of nearly $500 million...
...Your succinct article on operatic scores [Aug. 4] refers to my discovery of 27,000 "errors" between Verdi's finished manuscript of Falstaff and recent editions. I prefer to say "differences." for who knows exactly which are the errors? Should we call the posthumous changes, which rise to over 200 on a single page, revisions or falsifications? In Rigoletto, La donna é mobile began pianissimo in 1912 and forte in 1954, although Verdi died...
...Succinct Conservative. This same devotion to succinctness and the news distinguishes the century-old daily paper from which the Sunday Telegraph sprang. The Daily Telegraph, a listless, conservative has been of 84,000 circulation when Publisher Sir William Ewert Berry took it over in 1928, has surged to success on that very formula. By dropping the price of the paper to a penny, Berry put it within reach of Britain's tradesmen, tailored its contents to the middle class's conservative but aspiring tastes. Under Berry, the first Viscount Camrose, the Telegraph dispensed both news and editorial opinion...
...bitter partisan wrangle over the confirmation of Chester Bowles as Ambassador to India. At one point, Ohio's prestigious Republican Robert Taft rose to speak. "He is not a diplomatic man!" said he. "I have had a great deal of experience with him." Bob Taft's succinct characterization of Chester Bowles gets general approval despite the fact that over a period of 20 years, Bowles has plowed through a long series of jobs that generally require the soft, sure touch of tact. What he lacked in the diplomat's pouch of tact, he made up for with...