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Despite these portents, businessmen will not be certain of a bigger-than-seasonal fourth-quarter pickup unless there is also a sharp rise in new orders to whittle down fat inventories. Inventories are now about $4 billion higher than at the same time last year; manufacturers, who added $250 million a month to inventories during the first half of 1957, piled on $300 million in July. While the sales-to-inventory ratio ($1 to $1.86) stood close to the same level as twelve months ago, the lofty stocks mean that a better-than-seasonal autumn pickup in demand will...
...Pickup Alley (Columbia) is a corpse-strewn trail blazed by Trevor Howard, a masterful international dope smuggler, for the guidance of Victor Mature, a dopey sleuth inexplicably praised by his Narcotics Division chief as "the best man we've got." To make himself even easier to follow, Howard drags along with him a red herring called Anita Ekberg. And he goes on a real Crook's Tour-from Manhattan to a kaleidoscopic blur of bars, boudoirs and bawdy hotels in London, Rome, Naples and Athens-all genuine-location stuff, reeled off at such a frenzied pace that...
...their part to keep the legend alive. Near Farmington, N. Mex. last August, a Navajo family living on its own outside the reservation celebrated an oil-lease bonanza by throwing an alcoholic blowout for friends and relatives. As the party rolled on, the wife sent to Farmington for 17 pickup trucks as gifts for the guests. Finally, after a fortnight of roistering, the party broke up in a brawl, the guests scattered-and the host's wife lay dying, her skull bashed...
...steelmen gathered in Manhattan in an optimistic mood last week at the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute. A decline in the steel index that dropped production from 98% of capacity in January to last week's 87% seemed about over; many steelmakers reported a pickup in orders. The good news came at just the right time. Steelmaker after steelmaker said the U.S. is in for another steel price rise, for the twelfth consecutive year since World War II, to offset an automatic wage rise in July. Some plugged for $10 a ton, claiming that last...
...varsity players, Junta, Sears, Steve Gottlieb and Phil Mills did surprisingly well in the doubles division, as the pickup team of Gottlieb and Mills reached the semi-final round before being eliminated by Dave and Don Hicks of Amherst, 7-5, 6-2. The Hicks brothers were seeded second; Gottlieb and Mills were unseeded...