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...downward column of smoke and a few bits of floating debris last week severely set back the world's bravest post war experiment in civil aviation. One more British Comet, the third of the swift jet liners in less than a year, crumpled in mid-air and plunged into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing all on board...
...some residents of the province wondered last week whether the statistics should not be revised downward. A Winnipeg mother, entering her living room unexpectedly, found her eleven-year-old daughter grimacing and gesticulating before a mirror. The youngster puckered her lips, fluttered her eyelashes, tilted her head, and went through all the motions of singing-but no sound came forth. When the puzzled mother asked for an explanation, her daughter said that she was practicing for her part as a "goldfish" in the music festival. Goldfish, it developed, are the nonmusical children who stand with their classroom choirs and silently...
After five months of a downward glide, business last week seemed to be leveling off. Items...
From another group of commodities came surprisingly similar news: the nonferrous metals, long in a downward spiral, were suddenly perking up. In an unexpected spurt of buying, lead prices rose for the first time in eight months (to 13? a lb.), picking up ¼? a lb. for two days running. Zinc jumped ½? to 9¾? a lb., its first rise in more than a year. Tin, tacking on a nickel, shot up to 93? a lb. as purchases were stepped up. Judging from the metal futures markets, which last week scored the biggest gains in years, metal speculators figure...
...Sliders-Those who expect a fairly steady downward movement in the economy...