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...outcome of the game remained in doubt until All-Ivy fullback chip Young headed in a corner kick with only 16 minutes left in the game...
Bankers reacted to the economy's new look last week by paring the prime interest rate that they charge blue-chip customers. As expected (TIME, Sept. 28), moneymen around the country followed the lead of First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co. in trimming the rate from 8% to 7½% . The move could only delight election-bound Republican candidates because a drop in the prime can be cited as a sure sign that the worst of the tight-money squeeze is over...
...stock market's rally from its late-May low of 631 on the Dow-Jones industrial average lost a bit of steam last week. Having climbed nearly 70 points since mid-August, the blue-chip indicator dropped nine points and closed at 762, reflecting profit taking, worry over possible auto and railroad strikes and concern about the danger of a new explosion in the Middle East. Despite the dip, analysts are generally cheerful. As the market moves into its traditional post-Labor Day period of reappraisal -both of economic prospects and of individual portfolios-many Wall Streeters think that...
...highway. In this season the land is still hot, the air humid; the prairie wind sears rather than cools, and storms roll in from the west in minutes. Along the four-lane divided highway, humming tires throw up white crushed rock from the shoulders to nick a windshield or chip paint from a fender. From the few knolls in this flat land, the highway shimmers in the heat of distant, mirage-like oil slicks...
Even habitually anti-Pentagon Senators found it difficult to vote against the "bargaining chip" theory if it might one day yield a limitation of the arms race. So the Cooper-Hart anti-ABM amendment was defeated 52-47, and over the weekend opponents marshaled for a vote this week on an amendment offered by Senator Edward Brooke that would spend the full request but limit site expansion...