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Here Author Gunther, with borrowed research, shows mastery of an important technique of the searching-look book-the compounding of statistics from air and egg white. What counts as an "activity"? Brushing your teeth? Mowing the lawn with a toy gasoline tractor? If five members of one of Dr. Wylie's families watch Gunsmoke, does the researcher chalk up five activities? This is an important element in the art of making the world sound hollow when it is thumped. Another is the unvarying assumption that no one ever does anything because he likes it. If he goes skiing...
...Barlow, the Chamber director who earlier had engineered the organization's approval of the tax cut bill, proposed that the Chamber speak up for bigger U.S. business with the East. With the enthusiastic support of outgoing President Edwin P. Neilan, he organized a team of backers, including Caterpillar Tractor President William Blackie, Anderson Clayton Vice President Norman Ness and Christian Science Monitor Editor Erwin Canham, a former Chamber president...
...lessons for the world are properly understated by director Robert and, instead, he guides his actors at uproarious play. One side attacks with a borrowed old nag (utterly frightening from a child's point of view) and wins that battle in a rout. Later the other side borrows a tractor as the escalation continues. The buttons are essential to the business because prisoners are tied to a tree and ceremoniously have all their buttons cut off. As their pants fall and tears flow, they lose any semblance of honor...
...office accounting machines and computers are selling well in most of the world, particularly in Japan. A worldwide building boom is pushing up sales of earth-moving equipment; Caterpillar Tractor's first-quarter exports are up 17%. Because of increased mining activity, mainly in Canada, South America and Africa, export sales of the Denver Equipment Co., one of the leading U.S. makers of mining equipment, rose 45% in the first quarter above their year-ago level. The recent sale of 29 Boeing 727 medium-range jetliners to foreign airlines has reversed a three-year decline in U.S. aircraft exports...
...whose total value equaled the original. In 1964's first quarter alone, 43 Big Board companies have done the split, including RCA, Pan American, Campbell Soup and A.T. & T.,*whose 2-for-l split next month will be the biggest division of stock in history. Last week Caterpillar Tractor and May Department Stores joined the march by proposing 2-for-l splits. It looks like a big year in Splitsville...