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...relentlessly at solving tactical problems, and late one night, after jockeying matchsticks across his table for hours, he arrived at a memorable maneuver. Based on the premise that the traditional three-plane fighter element was an inefficient formation for aerial battle, Thach had figured out a two-plane weave pattern. It was soon to be used. Within hours after Pearl Harbor, Lieut. Commander Thach, now in command of Fighting 3, sailed out across the Pacific aboard the Saratoga. The carrier took a torpedo before the airmen ever got into a fight. Switching to the Lexington, Thach got his chance...
...harbinger of runaway inflation. The bothersome rise in the wage-price spiral will be slowed by several deflationary factors: widespread overcapacity in basic industries, a squeeze on profit margins, no recurrence of a labor shortage as working-age population rises. What the bank expects is a relatively stable growth pattern over the next five years, with prices rising a modest 1% or 2% each year. Any further acceleration in prices could be crimped politically by Government controls or higher taxes. "Thus," concludes Economist Reierson, "unless the U.S. adopts fiscal irresponsibility as a way of life or, of course, we become...
Businessmen are well aware that long-term contracts have many advantages. Management need not fear a production-crippling strike for three, four, even five years. Long-term contracts spare labor and management alike the heavy expense of time and treasure that yearly bargaining sessions require. With a fixed wage pattern, companies can plan ahead years in advance, knowing what their labor bill will be; they are able to guarantee delivery without interruptions. Were it not for long-term contracts in the auto industry, for example, countless auto suppliers would live from hand to mouth, not knowing from...
...Only 13.5% of the children go to school, and the whole area has only one university-the University of Dakar in Senegal, which has fewer than 1,000 students. But the African leaders are opening new schools every day, preparing for a future that seems destined to follow a pattern of its own. Except among a few Berbers in Mauritania, Nasserism has no appeal; and though it is fashionable in Abidjan for ladies to have a picture of Nkrumah's face woven into their dresses, the example of independent Ghana arouses far less excitement than it does in British...
...those who had tentatively picked blondes tracked back to discover where things had gone wrong. A precrowning favorite was Miss U.S.A., Eurlyne Howell of Bossier City, La. Five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, and even more statuesque in high heels, she was tailored to the Kelly pattern. Her shoulders were slim, her hair simply arranged, her 36-23½-35½ measurements politely de-emphasized. The expression on her composed, heart-shaped face seemed to say that she did not mind being seen in that bathing suit because she was above that sort of thing anyway...