MIRAGE.Universal Pictures, 1965, Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Weston, Leif Erickson, Walter Abel, George Kennedy, Robert H. Harris, House B. Jameson, Hari Rhodes. Screenplay by Peter Stone, based on the novelFallen Angelby Howard Fast, writing under the pe...
As a tie-in with the movie there came a paperback edition of the novel (Crest #d808, 1965), for obvious reasons retitledMiragebut now credited to Fast. The back cover is graced by an amusing six-word condensation of Tony Boucher’sTimesreview: “Pursuit scenes in the Hitc...
For an illustration of the earnings distortion that inflation can introduce, suppose that Caterpillar builds a large production factory in 1965 at a cost of $10MM. Suppose further that the company depreciates the factory using the straight-line method down to a salvage value of $2MM over a 20...