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...gaining steadily on the battlefront. The Harris poll showed that the stepped-up bombing raids on Hanoi and Haiphong were endorsed by 5 out of every 6 Americans. And ratings of the President's own popularity, after hitting a nadir of 46% in May, had curved robustly upward (to 55% ). So why was Lyndon Johnson so out of sorts...
...George Balanchine's New York City Ballet and Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra. The theater itself, designed by Manhattan's Vollmer Associates, is one of the world's largest, seating up to 5,100 inside and another 7,000 outside. People who perch on the upward-sloping lawns pay $2 each, get an unobstructed view of the stage...
...Sloshing. Then, with the SIV B in orbit and its engine shut down, the TV screens showed a weird transformation in the fuel tank. Now weightless, globules of liquid hydrogen ripped loose from the churning surface and began to drift upward. Ground controllers immediately radioed signals that opened the SIV B's tank vents, allowing escaping gases to accelerate the vehicle slightly. On the screen, the globs could be seen obediently settling back to the surface. "It looks calm," the controllers reported. "It's behaving itself. There's no sloshing...
...Escalator. Because other loan rates are scaled upward from the prime rate, the increase means that the already high cost of borrowing money for everything from autos to homes, from financing business inventories to major industrial expansion will also escalate to new altitudes. While these effects will ripple through the economy slowly-depressing housing starts further and perhaps hurting auto and appliance sales-Wall Street reacted swiftly. Already jittery over Viet Nam, the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit and the cloudy prospects of higher taxes, the stock market staggered through its worst week in seven. The Dow-Jones industrial average...
...city's highest passbook rate. That's gravy for savers, but borrowers stand to get their lumps. Manhattan commercial bankers are saying that it is high time for another increase in the "prime rate," now 5½% , from which all borrowing rates are scaled upward...