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Anderson's best hope is that the bond market will bottom out, and that rising yields will tempt investors back into bonds. But the big question is whether tempting yields are big enough to overcome investors' fears of more inflation-and an inevitable drop in present bond prices...
Yesterday, for the first time in many years, the Central Kitchen did not present its usual outlay of fish delicacies to tempt the palates of undergraduates. For the special coincidence of Memorial Day and Friday, Archbishop Richard J. Cushing granted a special dispensation allowing Roman Catholics to eat meat, a Central Kitchen official said...
...Walls Shook. M-G-M was hopeful that in Actress Schell it had found a dish to tempt the flagging U.S. appetite for films-but was the dish just a little bit too full for the American taste? Director Brooks suggested tactfully that Maria refuse some of those second helpings of Kartoffelklösschen and Sachertorten, and lose a little weight-say, 20 Ibs. Maria agreed, but when she arrived in Hollywood to start shooting, she was as broad as ever. Furthermore, she was dressed like a middle-aged Central European frump. Her frocks were all in the height...
Priced at $169.95, modest enough to tickle the fancy of the 6,000,000 U.S. families who take home movies and tempt the pocketbooks of the 43 million others still outside the market, the new camera is counted on to help boost Bell & Howell's sales volume from $45.6 million in 1956 to more than $50 million in 1957. By week's end even that prediction looked conservative. In the rush to buy the new camera, many of Bell & Howell's 8,000 dealers were sold out the very first day. The Chicago home office went...
With so much money to give, a foundation can easily tempt a scholar to distort his work in order to be pleasing ("Of course," says one Midwest political scientist, "professors distort and tailor their project requests. They aren't dumb. If they know the magic words to say to the foundation boys, they're going to say them"). The foundation must also be wary of overselling a university on a project that it really has no business taking on. It must support group-research projects-for teamwork is the trend-but it must be careful not to slight...