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Married. Adam Clayton Powell, 52, Negro clergyman and Democratic Congressman from Harlem, recently divorced from Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott; and Ivette Diago, 29, Powell's Puerto Rican secretary; he for the third time, she for the second, in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
Though department stores were worried about Christmas sales, total retail sales held virtually steady for November at a seasonally adjusted $18.6 billion-down only $100 million from October, which rang up the second highest monthly rate in history. Durable-goods sales declined 2% from October, but the losses were partially offset by gains of food stores, restaurants and clothiers. Moreover, the Commerce Department cheerily predicted a sharp rise for December (see chart...
...evangelist of the auto industry, President George Romney of American Motors Corp., announced last week that he was "lighting the candle" for his second crusade. (His first: the compact car.) The new crusade, he declared at a New York press conference, is a "progress-sharing plan to aid the neglected consumer." As of Dec. 1 through March, customers who buy American Motors cars will get rebates of U.S. Savings Bonds if sales increase enough over the year-ago levels...
Romney attaches altruistic motives to his second crusade. He says that he wants to show industry a way out of the wage-cost spiral that is pushing prices up, hurting the consumer and driving business out of the U.S. Ford and G.M., said Romney, have been moving production out of Michigan and even expanding abroad "rather than facing the problem and doing something about it." They will soon produce parts abroad for use in cars assembled here, he predicted. "It is a cold, calculated effort to become exempt from national boundaries. I hope our candle will help the others...
...BILLION EXPANSION program was announced by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. for 1961, second largest outlay in company's history, only $100 million below 1960 record. Chief new projects: launching an experimental communications satellite in a north-south orbit over the Atlantic to transmit telephone calls and TV between North America and Europe, and expanding the Data-Phone facilities, by which computers can communicate with one another over regular telephone lines...