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...secret is as simple as it is difficult to duplicate: the corporation is one of the tightest-run, most cost-conscious firms in all of industry, and it budgets for profit. Like the rest of the industry, G.M.'s small army of economists and statisticians had no sooner emerged from one model year 20 months ago than it focused on a hard look at upcoming 1962. While competitors talked in terms of 6,400,000 or 6,700,000 autos, G.M.'s massive research staff deduced from their studies that industry sales would be about...
...Soviet Union boasts some of the tightest border controls in the world, but they are not tight enough to hold back a thriving network of Russian dealers in contraband currency that stretches from Peking to Paris and points beyond. Last week a Kazakhstan factory owner went on trial in Alma Ata after he was nabbed wearing a money belt crammed not only with rubles but also with French francs and U.S. dollars. In his home were three ounces of pearls, 2,700 antelope horns, which the Chinese prize for their supposed medicinal qualities, and 22 Ibs. of gold, which...
...going to spur business by suing nearly every major company under the antitrust laws, and hold down prices by telling major industries what they could do. It was going to encourage savings by withholding taxes on savings, encourage farmers to solve the farm problem by putting them under the tightest controls ever ... It never made any sense...
...door." Whatever meaning or non-meaning lies behind the door, any reader can delight in watching the greatest verbal prestidigitator of his time at work, keeping seven ambiguities in the air, cutting cliches in half with a flick of his snickersnee, and as a finale, slipping out of the tightest of knots, the tidiest of pigeonholes. It may not be significant, but it is done with dazzling skill...
This is next year, and many of the same Crimson players will be going into Saturday's contest. Spectators can expect one of the tightest games in recent seasons...