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...blue chip industrials last,week inched back toward its alltime high of 706, many of the highly speculative "glamour" or "futuristic" issues stood far below their recent giddy peaks. Some had been selling at 100 or more times earnings. For one list of ten selected glamour stocks-(see chart), the fall-off since May amounted to nearly...
...under pressure. He badly needs a favorable settlement to strengthen his hand in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. (see THE NATION), yet cannot afford to antagonize either the Administration or the general public. Equally important, his own union-whose membership has fallen as the cost of auto labor has increased (see chart)-has been hard hit by layoffs in recent months and is in no mood for a strike. Result: for the first time since 1937, Reuther last week walked into the bargaining room with no headline-catching specific demands...
...Glenn Yarbrough, a folksinging trio called the Limeliters, have sung and quipped their way into an expanding fortune by establishing themselves as antonyms of showbiz gloss. Their concert tours (notably with Mort Sahl) have been unvaryingly successful; their most recent LP album has been on Billboard's bestseller chart for 15 weeks; they are worth $3,000 to $5,000 a week at the big blue grottoes like Basin Street East or Los Angeles' Crescendo. But they prefer to perform before college students in the afternoon. "There are no illusions in daylight," says Dr. Gottlieb. "It eliminates...
...novel opens, he is 37, newly successful, about to marry a blonde Hollywood starlet, and already suffering the physical penalties of literary lionization-"the bloaty softness of his face, the bat's-flesh bags under his eyes." From that high or low point, Novelist Cassill traces the fever chart of Clem's fatal illness-his life-in an intricate series of flashbacks...
...even less. After a seven-month decline, manufacturers' inventories rose about $100 million in April-a sign that inventories now react more quickly than before to changes in the economic climate. In past recessions, an upturn in manufacturers' inventories has usually lagged five or more months (see chart) behind an upturn in industrial production; this time the lag was only a month...