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...fact is that, for the third successive year, profits for many U.S. corporations are increasing at a faster rate than sales. Among last week's headiest profit gainers: Chrysler, up nearly 50% on a 22% sales rise; Motorola, up 76% on an 11% gain in sales; American Airlines, up 86% on a revenue increase...
Nepal became a stronghold of late Buddhism and its imagery when it retreated from Islam, which swept through India during the 12th century. Sequestered in the Himalayas, the religion existed in one of its headiest forms short of Zen-Tantric Buddhism. Its credo begins with the Adi-Buddha, a primordial god of ultimate beauty...
...Russe. To add the final touch of diversity, the New York City Ballet will appear Aug. 6-11, performing two of George Balanchine's latest ballets. The greatest U.S. prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, has just rejoined the company. ∙ASPEN (June 26-Aug. 25) is the headiest of the festivals. To begin with, it is 7,900 ft. above sea level amid Colorado's breathtaking Rocky Mountain scenery. The nine-week music festival runs in tandem with the skull-stretching...
...sage would begin playing post office, or frequently postcard. Absence definitely made Shaw's heart grow fonder, and for added emotional insurance the women were al ways married, as was he. The two most celebrated of these epistolary romances involved Mrs. Pat Campbell and Ellen Terry, but the headiest, cranially speaking, has only just come to light. Shaw's heroine in this instance was a well-to-do American dilettante named Mrs. Molly Tompkins. He was 65, she 24, when they met in 1921, and for the next 28 years, he bombarded her with advice about everything from...
...explaining: "If I am elected, you may keep them. But if I am defeated, I must take them back to pay off my creditors." Other candidates freely bought votes by folding money in campaign literature, and when the money dried up, by opening barrels of makkolli, one of the headiest of the home-brewed Korean rice wines...