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Died. Negley Farson, 70, bestselling author (The Way of a Transgressor) and onetime foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Grandson of a Union Army general, hard-living Negley Farson drew the source material for his hard-bitten books from careers as an oil salesman in the U.S., engineer in England, arms salesman in Czarist Russia, aviator in Egypt; of a heart attack; in Georgeham, North Devon, England...
...continued slide in steel production -down to 48.7% of capacity from 49% the previous week-last week brought an overdue change in the way the industry will announce its output. The steelmakers, who have been worried that the rate of capacity figure is not only discouraging these days but does not give an accurate picture of the industry (TIME, Nov. 14), decided to drop it. Many steelmen feel that the capacity comparison has made steel production look worse than it actually is, since the most profitable rate of production is around 80% of capacity instead of 100%. Much...
Romney attaches altruistic motives to his second crusade. He says that he wants to show industry a way out of the wage-cost spiral that is pushing prices up, hurting the consumer and driving business out of the U.S. Ford and G.M., said Romney, have been moving production out of Michigan and even expanding abroad "rather than facing the problem and doing something about it." They will soon produce parts abroad for use in cars assembled here, he predicted. "It is a cold, calculated effort to become exempt from national boundaries. I hope our candle will help the others...
MANI, by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Mani is a desolate Greek district, which modern civilization has not yet touched, whose poverty-stricken people are the descendants of the Spartans and still speak familiarly of Helen of Troy. British Author Fermor describes their way of life and their dramatic, forbidding countryside with a knowledgeability and high style that make Mani the year's best travel book...
...Way Home. A well-acted adaptation, retaining much of the moving poetry and power of James Agee's Knoxville chronicle, A Death in the Family...