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...store." Norris A. Broyles Sr., manager of E. F. Hutton & Co.'s Atlanta office, is trying to take up the slack by trading commodities and pushing municipal bonds and mutual funds. But according to the Investment Company Institute, sales of mutual funds dropped to a scant $154.8 million in August, down 23% from July and 37% below August 1961. Fund managers argued that the drop was largely the result of the recent Wharton School of Finance report which charged that mutual fund management fees are too high and that, overall, the performance record of the funds was no better...
With the Americans ahead 2-1 Sturrock and his Aussies proceeded to hand the Yanks the fright of their lives, Weatherly winning by a scant :26 over the 24 mile course. The fifth race ended the bid from Down-Under as Weatherly defeated Gretel by a 3:40, ending the best four out of seven series...
...Mexican constitution ever since 1917. Moreover, the annual aguinaldos-a bonus of two months' pay at Christmastime-is almost a national tradition. What bothers businessmen about the new provision is the unspecific terms in which it is couched. Before it was introduced, and as it made its rounds, scant effort was made to explain to private interests what the measure would mean in practice...
...could be done either to reverse the population trend or to prevent Israel from stagnating under the dead weight of a semiliterate majority. The commission's most obvious recommendation will be to improve the nation's patchy educational system. In the universities, Afro-Asians account for a scant 5% of the 10,000 students, though they now represent 54% of Israel's Jewish population. Moreover, few Afro-Asians can afford to attend high schools; though Ben-Gurion is pushing free schooling, most parents must shell out tuition fees of some $200 a year. The problem is most...
Some time in mid-December, if all goes well, the spacecraft Mariner II will skim within a scant 10,000 miles of Venus. Like a great mechanical bug, it will point its electronic eyes at the cloud-covered planet; and then, after a brief, 30-minute look, it will soar past to lose itself in orbit around the sun. But before it cruises beyond radio range of earth. Mariner should report back to its human creators and tell them more than man has ever known before about his planetary neighbor, the heavenly body that most resembles earth in orbit, size...