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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Marcus Nadler, Wall Street pulse taker, professor of finance. New York University LL.D...
BUSINESS IN SPACE will be encouraged by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which will make rockets and launching sites available at cast to U.S. companies for sending up communications systems. Likely first taker: American
...Dangerous, Damaging." Last week, however, Pollster Gallup had at least one cause for satisfaction: Poll Taker Alsop's own methods were under fire. A longtime believer in bloc voting, Alsop recently reported on surveys that he had made in New York of the Jewish, Negro and Catholic votes. Catholics, he said, were not committed to Kennedy, but "if Kennedy can just give the impression that he knows how to deal with Fidel Castro, he will solve all his problems." The Democrats "ought to do well with the Negro voters this time, unless our 52-voter sample was seriously misleading...
Wedding Cake. Last week he found a taker: the Uris Building Corp., headed by Brothers Percy and Harold Uris. New York's biggest builders, the Urises have studded the city with wedding-cake office buildings, shaped to fit tightly inside the New York building code "envelope" and provide a maximum of space and a minimum of aesthetics. Zeckendorf's sale price for the lease: $4,500,000. Uris brothers thought they had a good deal, since so much had already been spent in foundation work on the site. Whether Zeckendorf made or lost money and how much...
Once the blood lust had been aroused to this pitch, the oath taker was easily led to kill his own father or mother, wife, child or master at Mau Mau command. And any local Mau Mau leader devising a fouler ritual was under obligation to pass along his recipe immediately to his less inventive colleagues. Since there were seven basic oaths, which could be taken over and over again, Mau Mau ceremonies thus became perpetual orgies. The result was that, when a Mau Mau convert did repent and vomit out his story to authorities, he sometimes ended by humbly asking...