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...Brickyard." Fully one-third of the 33-car field was wiped out on the very first turn; the yellow caution light was on for 41 minutes during the 31 hours; and only seven cars were still running at the finish. The winner of what was supposed to be the fastest race in history was less a hero than a survivor: British Grand
...bonanza at Barrow will treble Australia's production of crude, reduce the amount of foreign exchange that it uses to import oil (now $280 million annually), and guarantee its future as one of the world's fastest-growing new oil sources. Together with the fairly new 10,000-bbl. wells at Moonie and Alton in the east, the find is probably the most important economic development in Australia since Merino sheep were introduced...
Lyndon Johnson has a thing about polls. Favorable ones he likes to pack in a pocket like a pistol, and usually he has one of the fastest draws in Washington. But last week's Harris and Gallup samplings were more like lead than lightning. The Johnson popularity was down to 55%, plenty for a landslide in any presidential election but a new low for him. Support for his conduct of the Viet Nam war dipped below 50% for the first time. A clear majority of 54% said they favored a U.S. pull-out from Viet Nam if the confrontation...
...Korvette in 1948, his company has moved westward to the Mississippi, expanding to 42 stores and 63 supermarkets from Hartford to St. Louis. All this requires a lot of administration, and Ferkauf is much too restless to sit around and tend to the details of the nation's fastest-growing retail chain. Result: though Korvette's sales since 1962 have more than doubled to $720 million, its profits in this year's first fiscal half (ending in January) have dropped 14%, to $7.9 million, and its stock is down from last year's high...
Sidney Kellam, the congenial, Maciavellian political leader of Virginia Beach, the state's fastest-growing city, had stored up credits among Negroes when he desegreated Virginia Beach's public accomodations, almost overnight, six months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Last year he guided Godwin through a series of meetings with Negro leaders...