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Each week some 5,000 woe-laden readers of the Chicago Sun-Times's Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers-who is syndicated in 342 other papers-apply to her for solace and advice. They usually get it, sometimes right between the eyes: to the miss who asked how to treat her swain's offer to "get married or something," Ann snapped: "You should get married-or nothing." Last August one of Columnist Landers' greatest admirers, Sun-Times Executive Editor Larry Fanning ("This girl has something beyond mere shrewdness"), detached her for a venture into straight reporting. Assignment: Moscow...
...Woe on Wall Street. To exist in the new age of missiles, some planemakers have already drastically changed their companies. Some are still hustling to do so, and some face the grim prospect that they must either merge with a bigger company or shut up shop. The change has already begun to cut heavily into profits. The plane industry, said one broker sadly, is the "only industry in a recession." In the first six months of this year, sales of the 15 largest aircraft companies slipped 5% and profits tumbled 45%. Among the giants, General Dynamics' earnings dropped from...
...news beat unexploited. Bullfighters commonly reserve up to one-third of a season's take for newspaper, radio and TV critics, who might otherwise ungraciously give top billing to the bulls. For pesos the journalists make lackluster movies seem works of art, and prizefighters jewels of virtuosity. And woe betide the motorist who, after an accident, neglects to grease a police reporter's outstretched palm: next day's story may suggest the innocent driver was drunk or (if he is married) in the diverting company of an unidentified señorita...
...Woe to the Johannesburg native caught on the streets without a pass in June, for then is when Transvaal farmers direly need black labor to help harvest the maize. If he is lucky, the African will simply be arrested, taken to court and charged $3 for his "crime." But if he does not know the ropes, he will be held for the labor bureaus, where as an alternative to prosecution he gets a chance to sign a "voluntary" farmwork contract...
...Boston's aging (40), terrible-tempered Slugger Ted Williams, the coming of spring carries inevitable splinters of physical woe. Last week, a fortnight after he first winced at a pain in the shoulder, Red Sox Star Williams shambled glumly into Boston's Lahey Clinic. Doctors studied his pinched nerve, began treatments. Ever-hopeful Ted, who has been benched almost a dozen times in his long career by such ills as a broken collarbone, a fractured elbow, ankle sprains and virus attacks, hoped to be at the season's opener, April...