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...Yorkers were buying their morning Times and afternoon World-Telegram and Sun under the counter at Union News Co. dealers last week. Reason: a campaign by Union News Co.'s President Henry Garfinkle to hike newsstand prices of the city's dailies to make up the cost of a dealer strike last winter. "All I want is my profit," said Garfinkle. His equally profit-minded dealers followed orders to "hide" the papers, but chanted to passersby...
...around. And for the rest of this 100-minute movie, which was made in Italy and Austria by Director Martin (The Sound and the Fury) Ritt, the customers watch a quintet of crew-cut cuties who look about as exciting as a boy scout troop on an overnight hike...
...auto sales, which spurted in the final third of March. Besides a solid gain by Ford and Chevrolet (TIME, April 11 Dodge reported that March was its best month since 1952 and that sales for the model year so far are up 129%. Plymouth's 37% sales hike over last year made its first quarter the best since 1957, and Rambler set an alltime March and first-quarter record with a 37% sales gain over last year's record first quarter. Pontiac reported its best first quarter in four years, with sales running 5% above last year. Nevertheless...
After they checked in at the lodge and had lunch, the three friends went out for a hike. Janitor Emil Boehn was carrying wood into the lodge as they left. "It's a beautiful afternoon for a hike," said one of the women. "Yes, ma'am," replied Boehn. The women walked to a slippery, narrow canyon trail, wound their way past ravines with 20-ft. drops, came to the dead end of a canyon whose walls rise 80 ft. on three sides, framing a frozen waterfall. They were about a mile from the lodge...
...proof that many builders are bracing for the possibility of a spring upsurge, the Federal Housing Administration reported that applications for mortgage insurance on new loans rose 30% in February, and the Veterans' Administration said that February requests for appraisals of proposed new homes showed the biggest monthly hike since last June...