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...Asian balance of power. She has grown since the end of American occupation in 1952 from a destitute and demoralized suzerainty to a robust economic giant. Now ranking fourth in the world (after the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and West Germany) in industrial production, her economy expands 8% yearly, the fastest sustained growth in modern histroy. Riding the wave of this economic power, she has led efforts in recent months to mediate the dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia; and it is possible that she may someday play a similar role in Vietnam...
Tony Lynch paced the qualifiers in the 440-yard hurdles with a 0:54.2 clocking, and Awori registered the fastest time in the 120-highs...
Wall Street hates a mystery - uncertainty is bad for the market - but it has harbored a mystery of its own for the past few weeks. While the U.S. economy enjoyed its fastest-rising first quarter in peacetime history, while hundreds of stocks surged ahead, while the bulls clearly outnumbered the bears on the Street, the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial blue chips barely moved after it hit a record of 906 in early February. Last week, in a series of stirring sessions, the blue chips finally took off. Led by General Motors, A.T. & T., Woolworth and Swift, the market...
...America team in swimming is chosen on the basis of the fastest ten times verified and submitted to NCAA officials by coaches during the season. Until he became sick from a virus shortly before the Eastern championships in March. Hayes had consistently gone better than two minutes in the 200-yard buterfly, faster than anyone else in the East...
...Hayes's fastest time was a 1:57.4 clocking against Navy in December. By the time of the National championships in March, this was still the fourth fastest time in the country. Without illness, Hayes could have been expected to go several seconds faster in the Eastern and NCAA's. Next year he will again be in a class by himself in the East, and probably one of the nation's best as well...