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...latest to make this discovery is one of the biggest contributors of them all: the Ford Foundation. Last week President McGeorge Bundy announced that the foundation, while continuing to give some $200 million a year in outright grants, will for the first time dig into its investment portfolio with the expectation of reaping a return from its high-minded endeavors...
...small Texas papers. Unsure of himself at first, he shunned controversy and even ignored a tip about the McCrocklin thesis for nearly two years. But now he has decided to trade punditry for punch. He has prepared a list of 20 sensitive subjects into which he soon plans to dig-"things like the state insurance agency and the Big Thicket, the stand of virgin forest where the lumber companies are cutting the trees and spoiling the chances of saving it as a national forest." Backed by Dugger as editor-at-large, Olds intends to rekindle the Observer...
Still, a few weak spots have appeared. Businessmen have begun cutting back their hitherto rapid inventory buildup, prompting manufacturers to predict a squeeze on their own sales in the fall. Steel output has plunged to a five-year low as users of the metal dig into the huge stockpiles accumulated as a hedge against the summer strike that never came. Most steel mills are running at only half of capacity, and steelmen expect further declines before orders pick up again. As a result, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week, the nation's total industrial production fell...
...admits, "is an act, and it really is meaningless." It is also troublesome, since it requires them constantly to prowl the pawnshops in search of cheap replacements for broken instruments. "We started using it," says Townshend, "as a lever to get the audiences to come, and then, we hoped, dig the rest of the music." Now the audiences are coming. The Who rank close behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as one of England's leading rock groups, and they are rapidly winning frenzied admirers in America as well. Still, the music seems overshadowed by the violence...
...good old songs, and little new dimension has been added by the score of the musical comedy tracing the life of Composer-Showman George M. Cohan. Joel Grey delivers the Yankee Doodle Dandy songs with combustible energy. But aficionados of the music of the period might do better to dig out their...