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Still, there were a lot of inflationary forces left. Unemployment shrank a tenth of a point in September to 3.8% of the labor force, thus aggravating the labor shortage. Sales of new 1967 model autos began so briskly that General Motors and Ford tacked on heavy Saturday overtime to lift production. The total economy, which cooled its feverish expansion during the second quarter, heated up again in the third quarter; gross national product rose by $13.6 billion, and corporate profits reached new highs (see box, following page). The Labor Department reported that consumer prices jumped by a substantial...
...owned nine other banks, four of them in Lebanon. It controlled 35 companies, including Beirut's largest hotel and thriving Middle East Airlines, the Beirut port, the cement industry, a gambling casino and a metalworks; in all, it employed 43,000 persons who with their dependents comprise a tenth of the country's population. Abroad, Intra's twelve branches spread from New York to Nigeria, its holdings from a French shipyard to a 27-story office skyscraper on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
...just love big families," Ethel Kennedy, 38, is fond of saying. That is fortunate. She and Bobby are expecting their tenth child in the spring...
...kept some in cages in a water-covered rice field, others in test tanks. Their breeding habits were unaffected; during one two-month test, three pairs of caged pearlfish produced a total of almost 2,000 eggs. While 60% hatched under ideal laboratory conditions, as few as one-tenth of 1% of those left to dry in a simulated ricefield environment later produced fish. But even this rate, Bay calculated, is enough for a yearly population of about 38,000 fish per acre...
...addition, Harvard is sixth in total defense at 181 yards per game (So. Miss. leads at 86.5), tenth in pass defense at 82, and fourth in scoring defense at 4.7 (another Crimson--the Crimson Tide of Alabama--leads with a 2.3 points average...