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...number of companies showed dramatic advances. B.F. Goodrich's earnings leaped 87%, largely because of strong tire sales. General Telephone & Electronics' net was up 53%, mainly because the rising value of the Canadian dollar made profits of its Canadian operation, when converted into U.S. dollars, take a big jump. American Airlines turned a $ 1.4 million profit for the quarter, v. an $8.8 million loss for the same period last year. It was the line's best first quarter in nine years, and it mirrored the recovery of the U.S. airline industry generally as higher fares, stable fuel...
...valley, taking walks to look at the animals and the crops and trying to ingest as much of the tranquility as my cells would absorb. I thought briefly about re-inviting myself there for part of a summer. Perhaps someday I will. But right now I know I would tire of the timeless hills and mountain brooks and would eventually wring the neck of a rooster that woke me on a sleepy Sunday. Summer camping never managed to accustom me to outhouses; I will never adjust to life without steaming baths. But when we drove to the bus stop...
Rock Hill finished last in the first half of the split season, and Anderson imagined a lifetime among tire kickers on Ventura Boulevard. ("Would you believe that people actually do that? Would you believe they buy new cars because of the way a tire feels against a shoe.") Anderson drove Rock Hill to a pennant in the second half of the summer of'65. With one exception-the 1971 Reds-no team managed by.Sparky Anderson has since finished lower than second place...
...least have the advice of people who know our problems." Moreover, the Midwestern economic outlook is improving. Detroit hopes to sell close to 10 million cars and 3.5 million trucks this year, thus putting to work many of the 39,000 unemployed auto workers. In turn, the steel and tire industries are heading for a good year, and the prosperity will trickle down to the rest of the region's economy. Said Eugene Swearingen, chairman of the Bank of Oklahoma in Tulsa, Okla.: "I'm relaxed and optimistic...
...does Murdoch plan any earthquakes at New York, except naming James Brady, a former Women's Wear Daily captain and uninspired New York gossip columnist, as editor. "I would keep its politics, although I might run fewer pieces and longer ones. I'm beginning to tire of all this pop psychology though. It doesn't have much to do with New York as an upper-middle-class service magazine." Murdoch plans to reverse Felker's transformation of the Village Voice over the past couple of years from a gritty neighborhood weekly to more of a faddish entertainment guide...