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...passed the halfway mark, every economic indicator pointed to prosperous times for Canada: plentiful jobs, increased wages and booming business. The only worry was that some of the spiraling factors would get out of control, upset the balance, and bring on inflation...
...Halfway through the third round, his putts rolling string-straight, cool Gary took the lead by a single stroke. Then, shooting cautious, slow-motion golf, the man who learned the game at the hide-and-seek age of seven turned on the pressure, played the last 27 holes in even par. On the last hole he was off to the left of the green behind a sand trap after his second shot. Middlecoff puffed on a cigarette for a moment, then chipped deftly. The ball rolled dead two feet from the pin. He holed out with...
...Halfway around the world in Mexico, another of humanity's sorrows was turning to promise. Huddled into a corner of Nayarit state, the squalid hamlet of Tecuala had for years had contact with the outside world only through a dirt mule track. But in 1951 an all-weather road pushed into Tecuala, and the town got a small, 600-kw. generator. Within weeks, the power plant put new life into Tecuala. A modern street-lighting system was installed, a water-pumping system modernized; Tecuala's hospital got refrigerators, fluorescent lighting, a fluoroscope. In short order, the town added...
Paul Nero and his Hi Fiddles (Sunset). More fuel for an old dispute: Is it possible to play jazz on a violin? The present answer: sometimes. Nero, composer, arranger and onetime concert violinist, gets at least halfway out of the corn belt, at least in the string ensembles, but drops a few kernels while he burns...
...battered Bulldog won an anticlimactic mile relay by nearly 20 yards.Winner PHIL WILLIAMS leads the milers at halfway mark...