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...prices go up and down in bigger and wilder swings than any other prices in the economy. They are "now overdue for a fall," says HOUSE & HOME. "Suburban land will sell for much less before it sells for much more." Farm land prices outside the suburbs have already turned downward...
...Kodiak, Alaska, took charge. On the satellite's 17th orbit, up to it came an electronic command: Release the instrument capsule. The order triggered a complex, irrevocable sequence of 22 events which permitted no margin for error. Jets first swept the 1,800-lb. satellite's nose downward until it pointed to earth at a 60° angle. Pins kicked loose, freeing the 349-lb. instrument capsule for its descent to earth, and the newly installed gas jets immediately set it spinning at 60 r.p.m. The quick blast of a retrorocket slowed its speed of descent...
Though long-term interest rates may resist the FRB's downward tug for some time, volatile short-term rates-the costs of financing shipments and storage of goods-have already eased. Many short-term Government securities are held by foreign investors, and the drop in interest rates may encourage them to seek higher rates elsewhere in the world, cause a drain on U.S. gold reserves. The gold outflow has picked up speed in recent weeks, now totals some $384 million this year. But this is a healthy improvement over this time last year when the U.S. had lost nearly...
...eliminate both the very high prices that hurt the consumer and the very low prices that are disastrous to producers. The Secretary of Agriculture does not set an exact price, but controls it by increasing sugar quota allotments when prices are headed upward, decreasing them when prices are headed downward...
...Bard. All the actors, British and American, like their predecessors, are involved in the attempts of their age to press Shakespeare into a contemporary mold. Orson Welles dressed his Caesar in quasi-Fascist uniform, and Olivier's mother-possessed, mob-envenomed Coriolanus ended hanging head downward, like the dead, degraded Mussolini. Moscow has staged Hamlet as an army plot against the King, with Ophelia a court whore who played the mad scene drunk. In Manhattan a group of feminists staged an all-female Lear, and a Polish actor played Shylock as a fat, wisecracking Broadway type. At Stratford...