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...real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start a new group, United ROAR. The factionalism may explain much of the calm this fall; certainly Palladino has lost much of her native support in Italian East Boston, and her and Hick's extremist tack may have seen its heyday. Palladino, at least, will probably go the usual route of politicians who have lost their local leg up to higher office and run for higher office anyway--speculation has it, for the Senate. It is clear now that Palladino doesn't have a chitling...
Hoarding Housewife. Last week Gierek took a risky new tack in dealing with food shortages: he restored rationing to Poland for the first time since 1950. He restricted purchases of sugar, a basic and highly prized commodity, to two kilos (4.4 lbs.) per person per month at the legal price of 50? per kilo. (Extra amounts can be bought at 2½ times that price.) He also announced that rationing may soon be extended to meat, for which he has already proposed a 30% price increase...
...member of TIME's Board of Economists: "This is a mystery to all of us." Economists do have some explanations, however. The most important: not only current price rises but expectations of future ones have diminished to the point where lenders no longer feel they have to tack a high "inflation premium" onto loan charges -and businessmen would not pay such a premium anyway...
...most-finished works on the dance festival program took an entirely different tack from Borg's. "Five Aces" by Joyce Morgenroth, guest choreographer for a company from the Five Colleges, and "1-2-3-4-5-6" by Judy Chaffee Black, a BU faculty member, aimed only at being worldly, everyday, even mundane. Both choreographers dressed their dancers in athletic garb and set their work-outs against classical music...
...products begin making a real contribution to earnings. In any case, Xerox is still looking ahead. Having done so much to create the mountain of paper that businessmen deal with daily, Xerox is now working toward helping them eliminate it, or so officials privately admit. One definite future tack: gadgetry for the superefficient office, where stacks of papers on desks would be replaced by TV screens linked to electronic files. Xerox is spending $200 million annually in developing such systems. Its estimate of the size of this "electronic office" market by 1980: $8 billion...