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...business for securities underwriters. In their annual forecast, economists of the giant Prudential Insurance Co. looked for "a continued high level of consumer and business confidence." And many top-drawer economists at a New York meeting of the National Association of Business Economists said that they were inclined .to boost their forecasts of 1964 business activity...
Tonight's meet is at the IAB at 7 p.m. A win for the Crimson, which seems pretty likely, will boost the fencer's record...
...boost of some sort at the News has been widely predicted since October, when Manhattan's other morning tabloid, the Mirror, went out of business. The News, which bought the Mirror and kept a few features and comics, also managed to keep some 200,000 of the Mirror's circulation-a figure that supplied enough extra fat to risk the Sunday price increase. And that inevitably gave rise to further speculation: how long would the Daily News remain the only nickel daily in New York...
...begin with that the Administration so readily gave up the battle for tax reform in its eagerness for a tax cut, and Senator Paul Douglas complains of "huge truck-holes in the tax system." Many liberals insist that the tax cut alone will not give the economy the extra boost it needs to cut unemployment sufficiently. They contend that labor productivity has been growing so fast that the nation's productive capacity is greater than Heller's Council of Economic Advisers calculated when it settled on an $11 billion tax cut-and that such a cut will create...
...Sheet, which covers the area as comprehensively as smog. In 1960 the Cowles Newspapers group (eight dailies in three states and Puerto Rico) invaded the Green Sheet's domain. Cowles bought the Valley Times, an undistinguished daily with 50,000 paid circulation, and spent three years trying to boost it into the big time. Circu lation eventually rose a paltry 1,600. In the same period, the Green Sheet's non-paying circulation shot from 115,000 to more than 200,000. In August the Cowles group faced the unhappy facts and sold...