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Such concerns began to seem more immediate during the summer of '29, as the economy began to falter. After the market reached its high on Sept. 3, there was a gentle decline, with ups as well as downs, for several weeks. "We tend to blame the market," says Kidder Peabody Chairman Albert Gordon, 78, who then worked in corporate finance for Goldman, Sachs. "But the market was just a symptom. We were in a bad economic situation whether or not the stock market crashed...
Even though it opened the second half with a lead, the Crimson's tungsten-tough defense refused to let up on its inexperienced opposition, which began to falter under the shadow-like pressure and make turnovers which gave the ball to Harvard for most of the second half...
American strength rests on this miracle of food. Without it Carter might be hoeing peanut plants for the Queen and Kennedy might be a barkeep in Ireland. While we falter in other global competition, this season the U.S. harvest of corn, soybeans, wheat and other grains will humble even mythology. The Soviets know. With tensions high over the troops in Cuba, Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland was not sure Moscow's grain negotiators would even show up a few days ago to review purchases. They did, and signaled that they would buy 25 million metric tons of grain...
...every weekend all over the country, but this one is by now part of presidential history-the middle-aged runner with the yellow headband and the number 39 on his T shirt nearing the top of a long hill in Catoctin Mountain National Park, then beginning to moan and falter. "I've got to keep trying," gasped Jimmy Carter, now sweating heavily. "If I can just make the top, I've got it made...
...else is new? The Boston Red Sox, following a tradition they established long, long ago, are simply playing true to form. As ever was, their hitting is marvelous: with a team average of .290, they lead the majors. But September is coming, the cruel month when the Sox usually falter. As the pennant race quickens, and Boston struggles to redeem past failures by overtaking the Baltimore Orioles, the team's batting is extraordinary, even by its high standards, and for two good reasons: a pair of slugging outfielders named Fred Lynn and Jim Rice...