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...Hare International Airport, he grimly insisted that action must be taken to reverse the nation's unemployment trend, but he ended on an optimistic note: "The growing pool of manpower continues to grow, a burden that should be a blessing, a liability that could be an asset. I have no doubt that these problems will some day be solved." A Strong Conviction. There did, of course, remain Cuba as a dark spot on the presidential horizon. But at his news conference, the President drew comfort from the fact that of some 17,000 Cuba-based troops, the Soviet Union...
When halothane was introduced as an anesthetic in 1956, it seemed nearly perfect. Unlike ether and cyclopropane, it is both nonflammable and nonexplosive-a valuable asset in the modern operating room crammed with electronic gadgetry. It causes patients a minimum of discomfort and, it seemed, could do them no harm at all. It rapidly became widely used. But last week doctors were disturbed by reports in the New England Journal of Medicine that halothane might have caused as many as ten deaths by damaging the patient's liver...
...earlier president once declared, "the greatest asset of this company is its mystery." Bank Note has always been extraordinarily concerned with security, keeps its premises closely guarded. With half of its business now in printing securities for such corporate giants as A.T.& T., General Motors. Du Pont and General Electric, it often knows months in advance that a company is planning a stock split or a new bond issue-information Wall Street speculators would love to have. And to foil counterfeiters, it uses special paper embedded with colored disks, mixes its own inks, and even makes its own special presses...
...market. Its many family-held enterprises have long preferred to scrimp to finance expansion out of profits rather than to float stock issues that might bring in outsiders. Many of today's rigid controls are a heritage of the desperate need of postwar European governments to ration every asset. Now that more capital is available, most of it is soaked up by expensive government welfare programs. Little risk capital comes from wage earners, who are still wary of risking their savings on the Continental bourses...
...infield is not the best in the business, but there are lots worse. If Chuck Schilling can recover from his disastrous sophomore slump (.230), the Boston infield could become a major asset...