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...Saturday morning Sullivan sailed the large, ugly boat down the Charles and tack to the shipyards where, he told the CRIMSON last night, it is now "undergoing extensive renovations...
...victory was not all gain for Kennedy by any means. The ferocity of his at tack on steel alienated and angered many a businessman who had come to believe that John F. Kennedy was not really hos tile to business after all. And by crushing steel in the name of economic stability, Kennedy had deprived himself of a perfect rationale for any future inflation. As it is, Kennedy's own governmental spending may well create an inflationary spiral. And whomever or whatever Kennedy blames for that, it certainly cannot be Roger Blough...
...Rumania's Transylvanian Alps 35 miles from Bucharest, Ploesti was called by Winston Churchill "the taproot of German might." From its oil refineries came one-third of the aviation gasoline, benzine and lubricants that kept Adolf Hitler's military machine running. To protect Ploesti from air at tack, the Germans had made it into a colossal land battleship. A ring of heavy antiaircraft guns formed a perimeter around the refineries that circled the city; lighter flak guns were concealed in hay stacks and groves, mounted on factories, bridges, water towers and church steeples on the target approaches. Crack...
...embarrassment of riches. With Frederic Donner, a tack-sharp onetime accountant, as chairman, G.M. now commands 55.7% of the U.S.-made auto market. That is a company record, the highest in the industry since Henry Ford's model Ts got 60% in 1921, and more than enough to prompt some nervous glances from G.M. officials toward the U.S. Justice Department, whose antitrust division constantly eyes the affairs of the world's biggest manufacturer. This year G.M. has conspicuously dropped its usual practice of stepping up Chevrolet advertising as its sales increase. There have been no recent dealer incentive...
...last court of appeal was the austere House of Lords, where he spent three hours arguing his case in 1960. When one learned peer lost his place in an obscure reference book cited by Hinds, Alfie chided: "My Lord, you are not with me." Last week, on another tack. Hinds tried and failed to get yet another hearing before the Lords. As he was led away to serve half-a-dozen more years in tightly guarded Parkhurst Prison, Lila was on the point of tears. "This time," she said. "I am really afraid." Alfie's admirers had more confidence...