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...stock market. The market rose steadily through the week in heavy trading, chalking up its eighth successive day of rise. Even at week's end, after the unemployment news was out, the market ran up its biggest one-day gain of the week (5.15 points) in the broadest trading in its history. It ended the week up 12.01 on the Dow Jones industrial average, to 633.65, highest since...
...communique: five heavily armed battalions of Communist North Vietnamese soldiers had crossed the border into northeast Laos and had attacked the town of Nonget. It was, cried Boun Oum, nothing less than a case of "flagrant aggression"-another Communist stab along the Asian front, the cold war's broadest and busiest...
...wealthy families who control the tiny, crowded (305 persons per sq. mi.) coffee country allow the military brass to run the government so long as they keep order. Lemus tackled the problem of order keeping, aggravated both by agents of Fidel Castro and by one of the Americas' broadest gulfs between haves and have-nots (average daily agricultural wage: 60?). He outlawed unruly opposition parties, saw to it that persuasive opponents of the regime were jailed. Eight weeks ago Lemus got too tough even for El Salvador. When parading students protested a ban on public meetings, his police responded...
...broadest indicator of the vitality of the U.S. economy is gross national product. Would it reach a spectacular half-trillion dollars ? Word went down from the White House to the statisticians: if it does, the announcement should be made by President Eisenhower himself. At week's end the news was out-and not announced by the President. Government economists reported that the output of goods and services in the first quarter of 1960 reached the record annual rate of $498 billion. Though running at the $500 billion mark by the end of the quarter, it fell just short...
...approaching famine. They believe that the tender shoots and the seeds encourage a vast overbreeding of jungle rats. Once this food supply is exhausted, the rats-many as big as young house cats -assemble and, like a disciplined army, march across paddies and vegetable gardens, eating everything. The broadest and swiftest rivers do not deflect them; as if hypnotized, they plunge into the water, and if not drowned, emerge on the far shore, appetites sharpened...