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...powerful "technocrats" who are more interested in production than in party patronage? Probably the most serious cleavage in the leadership would be between the old revolutionary Communists, like Mikhail Suslov, and younger men like Dmitry Polyansky. Suslov and his companions lived through the 1917 revolution and fought upward in the Communist ranks with the sense that strengthening the edifice built against such overwhelming odds justified the Stalinist excesses...
...Atlantic, they must be moving toward each other across the Pacific, because the earth is a sphere and they have nowhere else to go. As they move, their leading edges push against the crust of the ocean bottom, sometimes thrusting it down in deep trenches, sometimes bending it upward to form curving arcs of islands, like Japan. High mountain ranges like the Andes rear up behind the edges of the advancing continents, and where the rocks bend and break, lines of volcanoes spout their fire...
Move on the Rise. To the sharp eyes of Wall Street, any company with steadily rising earnings and a stock price ranging upwards of $75 per share is ripe for a split. On the Big Board today at least 50 companies fill these specifications, among them Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, G.E., Jersey Standard and Corning Glass. As the stock market continues to rise, even more companies will become split candidates. While splits in themselves do not give a stockholder any more than he already has, Wall Streeters love them because they usually represent a management declaration of confidence that very...
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Unable to persuade men to change their suit styles, clothiers concentrate their efforts on urging men to "trade upward." Here their trouble is the lack of status identification-from across a room a $50 suit looks too much like a $250 one. As Irwin Grossman puts it: "A Caddie, or a Lincoln, or an elegant house, or a mink coat-they smell of money, everybody knows what they cost. But the trouble with a man's suit is that, to most men, all suits are pretty much alike. You know-two legs, two sleeves. The label...