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...WEED FACTOR (806 pp.)-John Barth-Doubleday...
...Ebenezer innocently signs away the family property and sees the family manor Maiden, turned into a bordello. By the time he is captured by Indians, Ebenezer finally understands "the crime I stand indicted for, the crime of innocence." He abandons poetry and finishes out his life as a sot-weed factor, or tobacco peddler...
Though some firms also try to cut down on executive expenses and to weed out excess or unproductive management, the executive's usual penalty in times of falling profit margins is a pay cut. Douglas Aircraft Co. recently reduced salaries for all employees making more than $12,000 a year by 5% to 25%. After Merritt-Chapman & Scott omitted the quarterly dividend, Chairman and Chief Stockholder Louis E. Wolfson-who can well afford a pay cut-gamely announced last week that he will not accept any of his $100,000-a-year salary until profits pick...
...body of a five-year-old girl was found strangled in a weed patch near suburban Wheeling. The story was frontpage news in all four Chicago papers, as it would be in most cities; but in Chicago, for days afterward, the story shoved aside everything else...
Miss Ellen finds it hard to understand why her plantation fields are untilled and weed-crested, her mansion ransacked, her retainers gone or too old to work. Under Miss Lucy's direction the house begins to live again, but Miss Ellen withdraws to the calm solace of memories. In time she learns that a widowed war veteran has helped Miss Lucy hire labor for the field, that the estate may have to be sold for taxes. She learns, too, that for her sake Miss Lucy has rejected the man's proposal of marriage. At novel...