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...sales. Katona says that his latest study finds consumer sentiment finally leaning toward the buy side, especially in autos and appliances, but he does not expect the buying trend to show up noticeably until November and December. Bolstering Katona's optimism were indications from builders of a September pickup in new home sales that will eventually filter down to appliance makers. Another bit of encouragement for the fall retail season: the strike at Ford Motor Co. seemed near an end as the company agreed on a three-year contract last week with the United Auto Workers, and at week...
...Harvard Student Agencies' "depot" plan for pickup and delivery of linen and laundry in the Yard apparently will be short-lived. "I give it a month," Dean von Stade said Wednesday...
According to HSA officials the Administrative decision became necessary for two reasons: bundles in the halls on pickup days caused obstructions and possible fire hazards, and were too open to pilferage...
...stock market will benefit from popular expectations of 1) inflation, 2) higher profits, and 3) a general pickup in the economy. Just after President Kennedy's speech, the Dow-Jones industrial average scored its best three-day gain of the year, rose 18.76 points to close at a near record 705.13. Predicted Securities Analyst Harold B. Dorsey of Wall Street's Argus Research Corporation: "The annual rate of earnings on the Dow-Jones industrial average stocks in the first half of next year will be more than 10% higher than the best calendar year on record...
Crudest and cruelest of the current reapportionment battles, however, was in California. Because population in ten years had increased by a whopping 48.5%, the state gained eight additional House seats, the largest pickup of any single state. In control of the legislature for the first time in seventy years. California Democrats lovingly reworked boundary lines. Their handiwork ensures that all eight additional seats will probably be filled by Democrats. So will three other, normally Republican, districts, where lines were re-formed to include decisive numbers of Democrats. California Republicans, who worked much the same gerrymander ten years ago when they...