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...Rich. As payment, the stars demand about half a movie's budget, and get most of it under the table ("black money") in order to bilk the tax collector. Although often of low-caste birth, they win such passionate public adulation (oddly mixed with India's idea that actresses are on a level with prostitutes) that they have to be constantly escorted by baton-swinging cops. "These are the new maharajahs," says one bitter moviemaker. "When I think of the money we gamble on them, I can't sleep...
INSTALLMENT-BUYING BOOM has lifted British economy in few months since government eliminated minimum down-payment requirements and banks started making no-collateral 5% loans to wage earners...
...voluptuous feeling-illicit in the U.S., agreeable anywhere-that comes from possessing a bar of gold is now available to anyone for a down payment...
...Doctor Zhivago, if distributed at home and abroad, could be an effective weapon for us. The publisher's price [$5] will prevent many from buying it. The solution is a subsidized paperback 50? edition with worldwide, free foreign-language copies. Since the U.S.S.R. holds and refuses payment of royalties owed American authors whose works have been published in Russia, the Pasternak royalties could be distributed among these unpaid American authors and credited to the balances owed them by the Russians...
...stockholders fared so well. Du Pont chopped its year-end payment from $2 to $1.50 per share. United Fruit, citing fruit damage from wind storms, cut its dividend from 75? to 50?. American Telephone & Telegraph declared the same $2.25 quarterly dividend it has paid for 37 years, despite a spate of rumors of a raise. But stockholders have fared well this year despite dividend cuts in hard-hit industries. The New York Stock Exchange reported that cash dividends on common stocks for the first three quarters set a record high of $6.4 billion, up $11.2 million from...