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...climb could last.that long, and both businessmen and economists several times prematurely blew the whistle on further advances. This year, in particular, many started out by predicting a halt to the gains. Last week, early reports for the third quarter indicated that profits rose to a new postwar peak of close to $45 billion after taxes. In addition, the return on investment in manufacturing reached its highest level (13.8%) since the Korean...
...other day my wife and I were talking about our trip to Europe. I asked her where she'd like to go if she could return." Vellucci pauses momentarily to let the tension peak. "Quick-like she replied 'PORTUGAL.'" That snapped the silence and the shouting and clapping began again...
Whiting's characterization reaches its peak with the Prioress. We first see her kneeling in prayer to God the Father like a child before her bedstead. Unresolved Oedipal problems combined with her throbbing sex drives cause her to fall in love with Father Grandier in her fantasy. When he refuses to become her Confessor, her love changes to hatred and she half-consciously destroys him with accusations. Soon the childishness that lingers in every woman, so pronounced in this neurotic, turns credibly and terrifyingly into hysterics...
...editors and their meager resources. Refusing to accept any money from civil rights groups, the paper raises what it can on college campuses in the North-about $43,000 to date. Advertising income amounts to an inconsequential $100 a week. The youthful twelve-man staff (down from a summer peak of 18, now that students have returned to college) works for $20-a-week salaries and the sheer exhilaration of it. "Coming down here was about fifty-fifty," says Managing Editor Michael Lottman, 23, on leave from the Chicago Daily News; "half for a good journalistic opportunity, half...
...Passenger pigeons were good to eat, fun for sport shooting, and almost entirely salable: their dried gizzards were thought to cure gallstones; their powdered stomachs were a nostrum for dysentery; and their feathers were in great demand for use as ticking. During the 1870s, when the slaughter reached its peak, hard-working hunters could net 15,000 birds in a single day-at a market value of $1,250. News of a nesting was spread by telegraph; hunters came from miles around, and the pigeons were trapped, bludgeoned or shot (a single shotgun blast once brought down 187 birds). Squabs...