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No Fluke. "I run only when I feel like it," says Snell, and this year he is in a running mood. Despite his upset 800-meter victory over Belgium's Roger Moens in the 1960 Olympics, Snell was still a virtual unknown last January, when he set out to...
Ceaseless Search. The search for clues to such offenders never stops. Many IRS agents spend much of their time scanning the newspapers, carefully clipping anything that might point to a suspicious tax situation: a gossip-column item that a movie star has bought a yacht, a crime story reporting the...
From Thorns to Roses. Canada's doubts about what lies ahead are all the sharper for the good times of the moment. Having just weathered a considerable recession, Canada is enjoying a substantial comeback. Going into the new year, gross national product is clipping along at a record $36.8...
Hereditary Vigor. Each succeeding year Donaldson has graduated groups of fingerling salmon, identifying their class by clipping their belly fins. In 1955 came a startling break; 48 of the fingerlings released in 1952 came back from the ocean full grown. This was revolutionary; chinook salmon normally take four years to...
Late last winter, when he launched his ten-year "People's Income Doubling Plan," Japan's Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda decided that his nation's economic growth rate (a phenomenal 17.7% in 1960) would soon stabilize at an average 7% a year. On that basis, he calculated...