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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign in 1964, and he ran comfortably on Ronald Reagan's ticker for Lieutenant-Governor. Perhaps both men have decided that the cities deserve more than tax incentives to lure business into the ghettoes, but they have no indicated any change of heart since the election. Nixon's biggest contribution to the urban crisis has been to appoint Rogers--a county bond specialist--as Attorney-General instead of the J. Edgar Hoover type his campaign promised...
...Sheahy, the Eagles' first line center, should be Harvard's biggest problem tonight. The 6', 195 pounder, the team's high scorer with four goals and two assists, plays on a line with Paul Schilling, second scorer, and Kevin Ahern. John Sullivan centers a second line of captain Mike Flynn and Charley Toczylowski...
Still, not all did well. Britain's exports rose only 45% during the same period. And while the U.S. remained the world's biggest salesman, its growth of 91% in total trade over ten years rates only two cheers. In fact, the U.S. is on the verge of a crisis in exports...
...largely because general business conditions are looking better. Demand for steel is strong; output has climbed for four straight weeks. Sales of 1969-model autos have been racing at a record annual rate of 10.3 million cars (see story, p. 94). New factory orders rose 4% in October, the biggest improvement this year. Sales of new houses are increasing despite punitive price tags and pumped-up mortgage rates. Housing starts will probably rise from 1,290,000 in 1967, to 1,500,000 this year. Building-industry analysts anticipate about 1,700,000 in 1969 and a record 2 million...
Just before the start of the 1960s, Edward N. Cole, then a General Motors vice president, exuberantly forecast that before the decade was over Detroit would sell 10 million cars in a year. Cole has since been promoted to the presidency of the world's biggest manufacturer, partly because of his record of seeing the future clearly, but his fellow automakers have yet to prove him right in his most optimistic prediction. This year, however, they will come tantalizingly close...