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ANTIQUE SALES in U.S. are riding crest of a steady five-year rise, with last year's imports of $16.9 million doubling the 1953 total and this year's figure keeping pace. As big antique demand spreads to broader, more discriminating market, supply is rapidly dwindling in traditional European markets, and dealers are looking more to Asia, Africa...
...leader of a new band of Argonauts who have given the shipping world a new term: "the Greeks," meaning the independent shipowners of whatever nationality who have sailed on the crest of the postwar shipping boom. Customarily included among "the Greeks" is Midwestern-born Daniel K. Ludwig, 58, whose fleet (estimated at 1.5 million tons) is second only to Niarchos'. Behind Ludwig presses Niarchos' brother-in-law, Aristotle Socrates Onassis. 49, a flamboyant Smyrnan who, with Niarchos. bought the Monte Carlo Casino in 1954, owns some 1.3 million tons of shipping, the world's third biggest independent...
...side of the Sierra Nevadas back home, where he had once reached a dramatic 30,000 ft. (the record: 43,000 ft). Patiently he tacked back and forth, working his way upward, riding air currents as buoyantly as a beach boy on a surfboard. Once over the crest, he slid easily downward to the French naval airfield at Hyères, just eleven miles east of Toulon. No other glider got close...
Riding on the crest of a three-game winning wave, the Crimson lacrosse team will probably be drowned tomorrow after the wave rolls down to New Haven and into a powerful Yale squad. The varsity has won its last three contests by increasingly larger margins...
Riding on the crest of Saturday's 9-1 defeat of Princeton, the freshman hockey team will take on Williams at 4 p.m. at the Watson Rink...