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...reaffirmed its earlier endorsement of him as "the skilled professional" against Taft "the pleasant amateur." The Democratic Party has given Stokes enthusiastic backing, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the Teamsters Union are for him, and he continues to enjoy overwhelming popularity among the city's 120,000 registered Negroes (v. 200,000 whites). "I can lose the election only if I make a big mistake," says Stokes. Some of his supporters are worried that he already...
...adding darkness to the sudden panic; yet throughout his ten-minute rampage, Held displayed the calm proficiency of a man who has mapped his assault in advance. Shot dead were Supervisors Carmen H. Edwards and Richard Davenport, Lab Technicians Allen R. Barrett and Elmer E. Weaver, and Superintendent Donald V. Walden. Picking his targets with care as he strode through the mill, Held also wounded James Allen, a superintendent; Richard Carter, a lab technician; David Overdorf, a machine operator, and a manager, Woodrow Stultz...
Olivier is malignantly and magnificently feral, dangerous precisely because he is a wounded animal clawing at the specter of death. One waits for the Olivier howl, and it comes-but not as the inhuman scream of the blinded Oedipus, or as his trumpet call to glory in Henry V: "God for Harry, England, and St. George!" In words charged with pain and hurtling toward frenzy, Olivier vengefully announces that he wants a divorce in order to "unite my destiny with that of a woman who together with devotion to her husband will also bring into this household youth...
...normally the slowest quarter of the year, showed a surprising rebound. G.M., on sales of $3.77 billion, up 15%, reported a quarterly gain in income of 49%, to $149 million, because of a shorter changeover period in which the new models were tooled up. Chrysler earnings were $26.8 million v. $6,500,000 last year on a rise in sales from $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion; the increase in profits came about because of the earlier start on new-model production, economies ordered by Chairman Lynn Townsend, and the sell-off of a large inventory of cars. Both...
...Schmidt Beer in Detroit during the riot-racked period from July to September? The answer came last week, when the Associated Brewing Co. of Detroit, which was in exactly that unfortunate sales position, announced that it will have to report "a very substantial decrease" in third-quarter earnings v. last year's profit of $539,143. Associated's explanation: special circumstances...