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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Released by United Artists last January, the song was recorded by five folk singers called the Highwaymen. It began to catch on wildly toward the end of the summer, reached the top of the charts, and has now sold more than 1,000,000 copies, bringing the Highwaymen cash-boxes full of unexpected gold. Most remarkably, however, the Highwaymen are actually college boys-all senior honor students at Connecticut's ivy-tinged Wesleyan University...
...home run until the Yankees' tenth game. But then he began hitting them in bunches: nine in 13 games in May, 15 in June. When he reached 50 on Aug. 22-with 38 games still to play-Maris became the biggest news in baseball. New York tabloids offered cash prizes for predictions of which days Maris would hit a homer, how many he would hit. Nightly newscasts in Israel included Maris' personal box score for the day, and papers in baseball-happy Japan begged U.S. wire services for interviews with the Yankee slugger. Even when the Yankees made...
Profit with Honor. When the people finally do get back in the buying mood-whether for stocks, houses or refrigerators-they will have plenty of cash to spend. Personal income in August stood at a high $419.3 billion, not too far below July's $421.2 billion-which had been inflated by a one-shot insurance payment to veterans. Without the veterans' insurance boost, the July figure would have stood at $418.6 billion...
...other changes, students will be expected to pay cash for fines under $1. According to James, the Bursar's Office has informed him that the high cost of bureaucracy makes collection of small fines a losing proposition. "Students were getting off scot-free," James said...
...company will buy an equal number of shares from the Ford Foundation and retire them.) And there is plenty more purchasing power where that came from. Since it went public five years ago, Ford has issued less than one-seventh of its authorized shares. Hence, besides its $930 million cash backlog, Ford has more than 100 million potential shares it can draw on to pick up other companies...