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Charles Odegaard, 55, Washington; One of the fastest climbers among the newer presidents, he is so active that his regents a few years ago ordered him to take a vacation. Recently, the Carnegie Corporation of New York gave him a three-month travel grant just to refresh himself-this week he is on the Mediterranean. Once a history professor, he moved to the Seattle post in 1958 from the deanship of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts...
...Crimson mermen should start off the evening in fine style with a resounding victory in the 400-yard medley relay. The fastest 100-yard men in the backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. Eric Klaussmann, Captain Bruce Fowler, and Neville Hayes respectively, will swim the first three legs. Freestyler Steve Coy or Dick Saxe probably will anchor the quartet...
...before they revolutionized rock 'n' roll in America. On the credit side, he remembers that the station kept playing "You've Lost that Loving Feeling" for over a month before it started to sell, an unprecedented show of confidence for a song in the Boston area, "one of the fastest paced musical areas in the country, where a song has to be a giant to last eight weeks...
...gross national product grew by $47 billion, which was $9 billion more than his economists had anticipated. The tangible rewards of expansion were a 7.5% rise in personal income and a 20% jump in after-tax corporate profits (see following story). Profit-heavy corporations provided the fastest-rising single force in the expansion by increasing their capital investments $9.5 billion; the economy was also lifted by the "extraordinary strength of consumer demand" and the increase in defense spending-though the President stressed that production for Viet Nam accounts for less than 11% of the gross national product...
West Germany, which last year at 4.8% had one of Western Europe's fastest-moving growth rates, will probably slow to 4% or even 3.5% this year. Chief reason: economic expansion has resulted in a major labor shortage. Even with 1.2 million workers imported from other countries, there are five job openings for every unemployed person. Not surprisingly, wages rose 10% last year, squeezing profits and depressing capital investment. Though Germany still boasts the world's second highest exports (after the U.S.) and $7 billion in monetary reserves, the hunger of its increasingly well-to-do consumers...