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...jubilant Jimmy, there were gloomier times just around the corner. In Chattanooga, Tenn., this week he goes to trial on charges of jury tampering-the sixth federal indictment brought against him in six years...
...closer to $60 billion instead of at $51 billion. Industrial production may have jumped 21% in the past three years, but factories are still operating at 87% of capacity-five percentage points overall below their most efficient output level. Happy though he was to see his earlier and gloomier predictions undone, Walter Heller still says of 1963: "It was a year of split-level performance...
...election until next June, Tories say wistfully, Wilson's luster may have dimmed and their own limp fortunes revived. But even allowing for Labor's proved capacity for plucking defeat from the jaws of victory, most Conservatives last week agreed that their prospects have seldom been gloomier...
Some delegates were even gloomier for the prospects of the service corps in the South. They argued that any legislation which did not give the states veto power over local projects would never pass Congress...
...often whisper backstage prayers that the critics, somehow, will fall deaf by curtain time. Last week the critics fell mute instead. New York's newspaper strike (see PRESS) left them effectively silenced, but to the artists who made their debuts, the quiet from critics' row seemed even gloomier than the usual whisper of mighty pencils...