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Inland Port. The biggest gainer could be little Catoosa, a once bedraggled Tulsa suburb (pop. 1,000), which expects after 1970 to handle 12,500,000 tons of cargo a year, more than the ports of St. Louis, Memphis, Pittsburgh or St. Paul. The new port is also expected to generate 14,000 new jobs and $500 million in investment. But all that must wait until a channel is dug from a big tract of land where cottonwoods, scrub oak and pecan trees now stand. For the present, though, it is rather jarring to see a big white water tower...
Along with Gatto and Lalich in the backfield are junior Ray Hornblower, Harvard's second leading ground-gainer last year, and fullback Ken O'Connell...
...picture, obviously, is not completely black. Yovicsin immediately took to scrambling players and positions, and has achieved four successful switches. Last year's top freshman ground gainer, Pete Varney, who has speed and good hands to go with his redoubtable frame (6'2", 245 lbs.) moves to end, where he will start. However, Varney's departure and Szaro's injury--a sprained ankle suffered only three days into the practice season--leave Harvard with only two outstanding halfbacks, Captain Vic Gatto and Ray Hornblower, where they once had four. The injury to Szaro, a football player considered to have...
Amid widespread talk about a slower pace in the U.S. economy, corporate profits at the halfway mark of 1968 were remarkably handsome. According to a Wall Street Journal survey of 457 major corporations, second-quarter profits were up 10% from the same period of 1967. Largest gainer was the rubber industry, with earnings of nine companies bouncing...
...Chrysler is the leading gainer, with sales up 19% over lackluster 1967. Among its bestselling intermediates, the Plymouth Satellite enjoyed a 47% increase in sales over last year. Plymouth Fury, the company's high-volume car, has sales of 184,600 so far in 1968, compared with...