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Play degenerated considerably during the rest of the game. Although controlling the puck most of the time, Harvard got off only 13 more shots (three of which scored). Princeton was never able to climb closer to the varsity than a 4-2 deficit midway through the middle period...
...were 5% below year-earlier levels for the last week reported, largely because of bad weather. Manhattan's Industrial Commodity Corp., a private economic forecasting firm, held out hope for better times ahead. It reported that new orders and retail sales of consumer nondurable goods have begun to climb after mid-1960 dips. While new orders are still running behind retail sales, the forecasting firm figures that they are reverting to the closely similar pattern the two have held for years (see chart), and expects a further rise. It also feels that apparel sales are bound to turn upward...
...bizarre; this week he plans to send half a dozen men about Manhattan wearing berets and carrying green pissoirs plastered with red signs for Irma La Douce. His most publicized feat occurred when Look Back in Anger seemed tottery and Merrick paid a dizzy young woman $250 to climb up over the footlights and slap Actor Kenneth Haigh's face because, she screamed, he was such a mean man. (Merrick tells the story well, and undoubtedly it actually happened. But a listener finds himself mentally handicapping everything the producer says. The feeling arises that there...
Layoffs. The cutbacks are bad news for auto workers. About 25,000 have been laid off since the model year began, and the total is expected to climb to 31,000 in January, more than 6% of the industry's working force...
...free market price began to climb, finally inched permanently past the Treasury purchase price of 90½ in 1956. In the past two years the price has been high enough to permit the U.S. to begin to unload its huge supply. Last year the U.S. was able to sell off nearly 20 million oz., had to buy only 1,000,000 oz., since U.S. silver producers were able to get a higher price in the free market...