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...more constant contact with the ordinary Englishman than the 75-year-old Dunlop Rubber Co. Dunlop makes the hot-water bottle he tucks into bed with him, the galoshes he depends on in England's soggy climate, the hose he waters his roses with, and the cricket bat he wields. Most of all, Dunlop makes his tires: half of all British vehicles roll on Dunlops. With car sales strong, business is bullish. This week the company will report that profits jumped 14% last year to $77.5 million on sales of $792 million...
...slowly fills, Lake Nasser will obliterate the last traces of one of his tory's richest archaeological deposits. Bone-dry Nubia, the "land of gold," over which black men and white bat tled for 50 centuries, will be drowned. Though the Nubians themselves once ruled all Egypt (750-656 B.C.), they were frequently the victims of invaders. The Pharaoh Snefru 4,600 years ago reported "Nubia hacked to pieces: 7,000 men and women, 200,000 cattle and sheep led away." Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks and British followed, leaving hundreds of monuments, temples, fortresses, churches and works...
Columbia finally got going in the ninth after relief pitcher Jack Strauch had plunked Luther in the side with a fast ball. All-around hero Archie Roberts got his first hit of the day, a broken-bat wrongfield single to left. Farber, playing right field, singled him to second and Reggie Maton walked. Harvard catcher Gary Miller promptly picked Maton off first, but Tom Stephenson dropped the ball in the rundown. He recovered in time to tag Maton out, but Roberts scored...
...that lost four straight games to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1963 World Series. But Yogi was taking no chances. "We had too many pulled muscles last year," he said, ordering ten minutes of rugged calisthenics every day. At practice sessions he was everywhere-gesturing with a fungo bat, exhorting his players ("C'mon now, c'mon . . . let's hustle . . . attaboy . . . here we go . . . let's move"), scribbling furiously in a bulging notebook...
President Johnson does not like to bat his head against stone walls. One of the most effective pieces of masonry in Congress is Rep. Otto E. Passman (D-La.), who for years has made a career of blocking the road between the treasury and the various foreign aid administrations. Last week Johnson decided to surrender rather than continue an increasingly risky political battle. Amidst protestations of impotence ("I think it is going to be very tough to get a good foreign aid measure through Congress this year"), Johnson asked for what he called "a great deal of money": $3.4 billion...