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...view of the risks they take, factors lose remarkably little through bad debts: their loss rate is only about one-twelfth of 1% on volume-a rate that compares favorably with the losses sustained by banks. Competition holds down factors' charges to around 1% to 2% of the value of the accounts they factor. For higher earnings, factors look to increased volume. Their fondest hope is that President Kennedy's new trade expansion bill will spur new interest in European sales among small and medium-sized U.S. companies. Already factors are planning overseas operations to handle accounts...
...month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered Soviet gloves, complained Izvestia, "make even the most graceful hand look like a paw." Hair rinses, shampoos and large curlers are hard to find; one reporter in Moscow waited more than four hours for a hair dresser, still was twelfth in line when the shop was ready to close. Concluded Izvestia: "If you want to look beautiful, you must suffer...
...Wagnerian game with the University of Texas (U.T. has won 44 times since 1894, against 17 for A. & M.). Moreover, every single Aggie stands throughout every single football game-ignoring even passing tornadoes-to signify his eagerness to take to the field if necessary as the team's "twelfth...
Solution: Having fed all this into a high-speed IBM 7090 computer at M.I.T., Mosteller and Wallace report that Madison wrote eleven of the disputed Papers; odds are 80 t011, they say, that he also wrote the twelfth. New score card: 26 Papers for Madison, 43 for Hamilton (they co-authored three; John Jay wrote five). All of which took three years to prove, and may be quite satisfactory to an IBM 7O90,-but will still leave any professional writer with a nagging question: What if Hamilton really wrote the papers and Madison later edited them, dourly scratching out upon...
...still speaks persuasively." The Eighth Symphony won a standing ovation ("Moments of true greatness," wrote the Daily Telegraph), and some listeners found the string quartets-particularly Nos. 5 and 7-to be as fine as any of the orchestral music. But with the Western Premiere of the massive, bombastic Twelfth Symphony, the response changed-as if a totally different composer had appeared on the scene. The Twelfth, said the Daily Herald, was a "crash dive into banality." Wrote Critic Noel Goodwin of the Daily Express, noting that the symphony celebrates the October Revolution of 1917: "It is an exhibition...