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...also in the armed services seemed a distressing anomaly among careful and intelligent appointments. To be sure, the chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services Committee were all for the idea, but Senator Russell and Representative Vinson have both in their time displayed the milk-white segregationist crest, and both, of course, are Georgians...
...almost four decades, even though the company expanded steadily, its stock was considered more like a bond, an investment for widows and orphans who needed steady, unspectacular income. When dividends were raised for the first time, investors took a second look, saw that the company was riding the crest of the population explosion, new automation techniques and space-age electronics...
...auto industry continues to ride a crest of new-car sales. November figures set an alltime high for the month, to reach 530,393 U.S.-built cars, breaking the 1955 record by 1,214 units. Though about one in four of the sales is in the heavily discounted, strongly pushed, leftover 1960 models, the sales volume has cut 1960 models on dealers' lots to only 115,000. It has also gradually slowed the rate of accumulation of cars by dealers, one of the industry's biggest worries. November new-car shipments to dealers exceeded sales by only...
...varsity wrestling team will meet Franklin and Marshall tonight at Lancaster, Pa. The Crimson, riding on the crest of a 22-8 upset win over Williams, is expected to defeat the graduation-weakened Franklin and Marshall squad...
Riding on the crest of a 2-0 record, the squad will use Captain Larry Johnson, Walter McBeth, Lonnie Wheeler, and Ted Boorama at foil: John Tiel, Heder, and Jim Pusey at sabre: and Bill Bonnet, John Reckler, and Peter in the epee division...