Consumer Is Unpredictable By Joan Cunniff AP Analyst
An AP business analysis argues consumer unpredictability reshapes the US economy. The piece notes rising wealth and credit, shifting from filling needs to satisfying tastes, with greater savings variability and delayed tax effects. It credits George Katona for consumer behavior insights and questions Keynesian spend/income ratios as outdated.
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Joan Cunniff
NEW York
George Katona
University of Michigan
Federal Reserve
Federal
John Maynard Keynes
Keynes
Short Sweet Hard To Beat By Joy Stilley
Joy Stilley reports from New York and Indianapolis about Halloween and Thanksgiving card trends and a hotel theft case involving actress Vivian Blaine. The piece blends social notes on greeting cards with a crime update noting $11,000 in furs jewelry and wigs stolen from Blaine’s hotel suite.
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Joy Stilley
Hal Boyle
New York
Arena
Indianapolis
Ind
Vivian Blaine
Blaine
Clowes Memorial Hall
High school dropout charged with suburban sniper fire
A 16 year old, given a .22 rifle for Christmas, fired 24 to 36 shots from a first floor Silver Spring Maryland apartment. A waitress was grazed, a service station attendant Gary Stultz was critically wounded, and Arthur Biller Jr. was injured. Police used tear gas to flush him from the unit. A court hearing will decide if he stands trial as an adult. The youth had left school last year and helped his father painting.
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ASSOCIATED _— WASHINGTON
Silver Spring
Alice
Gary Wayne Stultz
Arthur A. Biller Jr
Old Nick's Copper Origin Story for Nickel
Miners in Saxony coined the name kupfernickel or Old Nick's copper in 1654 when they failed to smelt ores that contained nickel. They blamed a devilish curse for the metal’s stubborn behavior.
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Saxony
Eisenhower votes absentee from Walter Reed hospital
Mrs Dwight D Eisenhower pins a Nix on-Agnew badge and casts an absentee ballot from Walter Reed Hospital where Dwight D Eisenhower recovers from his seventh heart attack. The couple plans to vote in Pennsylvania amid a cautious campaign climate.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Pennsylvania
Eisenhowers
Komer Leaves Saigon for Turkey Ambassadorship
Saigon veteran Robert W. Komer, 46, leaves to become U S ambassador to Turkey for three months claiming Viet cited pacification progress cuts enemy control by half. Critics doubt gains and warn villages may revert without ongoing guard. Komer cites 9,600 Viet Cong killed this year. opposition notes shadow government remains. Colby to replace him as CIA veteran. The article also notes Africa’s 3.8 million motor vehicles, 1.7 million of which are in South Africa.
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Saigon
Robert W. Komer
U.S
Turkey
America
Komer
Johnson
South Vietnam
Upper Jars
Vietnam
Vilages
CIA
Nguyen Duc Thang
Thang
William E. Colby
New Syrian cabinet formed to replace Zayyen
A dawn announcement from Damascus says President Atassi forms a 26 member cabinet mostly drawn from Youssef Zayyen's ministers after accepting his resignation. In Bonn Kiesinger and Brandt will lead an inquiry into West Germany intelligence amid a spy scare and NATO concerns following recent arrests and deaths. East Germany jails seven young dissidents linked to anti Soviet protests including relatives of officials, sentences range 14 to 27 months. In Canberra Australia, Army Minister Lynch tells the RSL congress Vietnam gains for Saigon and allies as South Vietnam’s army grows and intelligence improves their cause.
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Associated Press Damascus
Nouredin Atassi
Syria
Youssef Zayyen
Zayyen
Zaygens
Bonn
Germany
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Spain
Portugal
West Germany
Kiesinger
Willy Brandt
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Hermann Luedke
NATO
Bonna
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
ADN
Nightsomendnats
Comes Brasch
Horst Brasch
Erika-Dorothea Berthold
Leninist-Marxist Institute of
East German Communists Central Committee
Os Ra Weigel
Bertolt Brecht
Helene Weigel
East Germany
East Berliner
Ensemble Theater
Canberra
Australia
Vietnam
Saigon
Phillip Lynch
Australian Returned Servicemen’s League
Lynch
St. Andre's PFTA Names Scholarship Committee At Meeting
St. Andre's Parents Friends and Teachers Association held a meeting at the parish hall naming a standing committee for the scholarship fund. Attendees included George Neault Mrs. Jean Paul Cantara and Mrs. Priscille Guerin with Mrs. Gilberte Gagnon resigning as historian and Mrs. Pauline Hevey named successor. President Paul Neault chaired the session as Yvette Loranger and Joan Lamon Harvest read reports. A ball and buffet lunch were announced for Saturday at the parish hall with reservations via George Neault or Mrs Neault. Brother Conrad S.C. of St. Andre's School was guest speaker outlining the school program.
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St. Andre’s Parents, Friends and
George Neault
Jean Paul Cantara
Priscille Guerin
Gilberte Gagnon
Pauline Hevey
Paul Neault
Yvette Loranger
Joan Lamon
Muriel
Nottingham High School Closed After Principal Struck by Chair
In Syracuse Nottingham High School shut down after principal William Wiydenburgh was struck by a chair during a cafeteria disturbance. About 20 nonstudents, described as Negro teenagers, were ejected earlier and returned to trigger melee. Principal suffered a head injury. no arrests reported.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Nottingham High School
William Wiydenburgh
the Journal
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