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...Since Ho was a particular friend of Peking, Li's rank was significant. A few days later, he was in the group that met Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at Peking Airport. Last month Li was the first Chinese official to make a statement on Richard Nixon's major address on Viet Nam. His line at the time was a tough one. He charged that "U.S. imperialism will never abandon its criminal aim of vainly trying to perpetuate its forcible occupation of South Viet Nam." He also condemned the Middle East policies of both the U.S. and the Soviet...
...track of Owens' statistics would challenge a computer. Going into the final game of his three-year career last week, he had carried the ball more times (850) for more yards (3,606), more touchdowns (54) and more points (324) than anyone before him in the history of major-college football. He also had a string of 17 straight games in which he gained at least 100 yds. against defenses invariably keying...
Second Youth. Janáček was born in 1854 in Moravia, now part of Czechoslovakia. He studied music in the town of Brno, married there (unhappily), suffered through the early death of his two children, and enjoyed no major success as a composer until he was 60. About that time, he fell in love with Kamila Stössl, 38 years his junior and the wife of an antique dealer. The affair was apparently platonic; nonetheless, it brought the composer an astonishingly productive second youth. From the time of his meeting with Kamila, his music surged with an energy...
These conditions partly reflect the Federal Reserve's squeeze on credit. Banks are curtailing bond buying and mortgage lending in order to conserve scarce funds for direct loans to business. Insurance companies, which are normally major buyers of bonds and mortgages, are being drained of cash by loans that they must make to policyholders who cannot get credit so cheaply elsewhere. But the bond-mortgage slump reflects even more the ravages of inflation. Corporations, for example, are hurrying to build new plants before construction costs rise even further (see following story), and are selling huge quantities of new bonds...
...International Nickel Co., the world's largest producer, followed an expensive settlement of a 128-day strike at its Ontario mines by announcing a 24% price increase. The move is bound to have major effects in the U.S. Stainless-steel producers, who use 37% of all nickel, are expected to increase prices shortly, for the third time since January. From nickel-plated auto bumpers to jet engines, many products are sure to cost more...