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...increase was a welcome relief not only for stores but for the economy as a whole. Retail sales have generally been running at their slowest pace in two years. The decline is sharpest in such durable-goods lines as autos, where production is at its lowest point since 1961. Detroit last week reported a 21.4% drop in auto sales for the second ten days of February. The decline has also been felt in such nondurables as clothing and household goods, which in the final quarter of 1966 showed their slowest sales gains in three years. Moreover, food purchases, which have...
During the ten-year tenure of former Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield, the University of Pittsburgh gained stature and generated excitement before tailspinning into insolvency (TIME, July 2, 1965). Last week Pitt pinned its hopes for regaining level flight on one of the sharpest intellects in the U.S. Air Force. The university's trustees named Colonel Wesley W. Posvar, 41, founding chairman of the Air Force Academy's political science department, as new chancellor, effective June...
...gunboat on the Mississippi?" Yet Director Wise takes care to make his lecture entertaining. He shrewdly decorates his picture with a bloody wonderful battle sequence, some splendid Taiwan shorescapes, a simperingly pretty leading lady (Candice Bergen), Not to overlook McQueen, a leading man who turns in the sharpest performance of his career. In a picture full of paper tigers, he exudes a none too subtle effluence of tomcat...
...church as well as the state. Sir Thomas, unable in all conscience to take the oath, nevertheless decides he is "not the stuff of which martyrs are made." Being the greatest wit of the age, he decides "to serve God wittily, in the tangle of the mind." Being the sharpest lawyer in the kingdom, he darts through a loophole in Henry's law. "I will not take the oath," he announces gravely to Thomas Cromwell (Leo Mc-Kern), the leader of the King's pack of political jackals. "I will not tell you why I will not." Cromwell...
...change in civil rights protest-from early nonviolence to last year's holocaust in Watts. And a changing judicial attitude became apparent last February, when a bare majority of only five Justices reversed the convictions of Louisiana Negroes who had refused to leave a segregated public library. The sharpest dissenter was the court's stoutest liberal, Justice Hugo Black. Said he: "It has become automatic for people to be turned loose as long as whatever they do has something to do with race. That is not the way I read the Constitution...