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...Well," sighed one tape watcher in the Beverly Hills office of Ira Haupt & Co., "now I've got 30% less than I had last Friday." A young Chicago couple stared glumly at their living room wall, where a petit point sampler proclaimed "God Bless Fairchild Camera." Across the land, 15 million investors reluctantly emerged from a dreamland of perpetual capital gains and grimly focused their attention on the citadel of U.S. capitalism at Broad and Wall Streets in lower Manhattan...
...Bird Watcher Mamarchev is correct. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, called a snegir, has always been a Russian favorite. In ancient days snegiri, and other birds, were released from their cages as a sign of spring. Orthodox Russians, continuing the tradition, believe that each bird freed on Annunciation Day (April 7) atones for one sin. Tradition dies hard, and even now in the Soviet Union, birds are set free on that...
...years, without a fatal injury. Night after night, they went on working 50 ft. or more in the air, never with nets beneath, death always below them. For all their poles, chairs, bicycles and gymnastic skills, what kept the act booked was the universal tension engendered in every watcher by the knowledge that the Flying Wallendas might fall...
...intelligent darkness. Moreover, the main performances are most capably carried off. Actress Kerr, with steely control, tunes herself like a violin string till she quivers exquisitely at the snapping point; and the dear children are just what Author James imagined-faces that shine like bright new pennies till the watcher begins to wonder uneasily about the other side of the coin...
...exceed potential results. Two weeks ago, with accountants' recommendations, Avco dropped one developmental program, assigned another to a licensee and beefed up a third with more money -all within three days. "Money means nothing to scientists," says one management spokesman, who happily recalls the occasion when one budget watcher snagged a scientist's purchase order for an $8,500 digital ohmmeter, told him to borrow one from another Avco division. (He did.) At the same time, Avco has cracked down on high-stepping traveling executives, advises them to fly tourist class and stay at inexpensive hotels recommended...