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Each year when the time comes for Morocco's three-day independence blowout, a kindly foreign friend is called upon to pick up most of the tab. In 1959 the U.S. donated a fleet of trucks and armored vehicles to roll in the parade down the palm-lined streets of King Mohammed V's old capital of Marrakech. This year the U.S. dutifully came through with another $3,500,000 worth of motorized equipment and weapons-part of a fiveyear, $20 million military-aid program...
...ground expenses), fares should not be calculated on a straight price-per-mile basis. Instead, statisticians worked out a new cost curve that drops as flights get longer. Thus, round-trip flights from Montreal to Vancouver, now $246, could be cut to as low as $182, while the $24 tab on the short Montreal-Toronto run should go up a few dollars...
There was no doubt that gloomy talk about poor business gave the market a push down. Thousands of small investors across the nation were suddenly aware of a dampening word: recession. Said Jacques Coe, who keeps tab on what the small investor is doing by totaling the odd-lot purchases and sales: "Never in all my years have I seen this type of bearishness. The most recent figures show short selling running eight to ten times normal." Since Coe believes that the public becomes most bearish when the market is about at its bottom, he expects a sustained upturn before...
...Tab Hunter Show (NBC), opening this week, demonstrates once again that Tab's acting range pretty much consists of a capacity to inhale and exhale through his seemingly polyethylene eye balls. As Paul Morgan, a Malibu Beach cartoonist, he is felled by one sandy starlet after another, but the word on the beach is that the whole thing is phony abalone...
...Tab Hunter Show (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). P. Lorillard and Westclox have picked up the Tab for a new comedy series about an amiable cartoonist...