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...high profits from coffee speculation, said FTC, is to clamp down on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. One bill to regulate coffee trading has been passed by the Senate, but it is now tucked away in a corner of the House Agriculture Committee. In the pre-adjournment legislative jam, chances are that the bill will stay in the corner...
...dissonances, the modernist crowd was ready to call it the high point of the festival. But the younger set shrieked louder when hollow-cheeked Gerry Mulligan bellowed and coaxed The Lady Is a Tramp through his big baritone sax. The concert finally ended after midnight with a 20-man jam session that sent the strangest sounds ever heard in Newport floating up to the stars...
...long as it is above the horizon. The ship's navigator can find his position just as if he had an assistant watching the sun through an ordinary optical sextant. No cloudy weather gets in the way of the radio sextant, nor can an enemy jam the radio impluses (as is possible with other radio aids to navigation, such as Loran...
...Traffic Jam. In Independence, Mo., after leading seven patrol cars on a ten-mile chase and drawing police fire, Charles D. Scott, 18, explained: "My foot got wedged on the accelerator...
Reports from other segments of the economy indicated that a traffic jam was building up on the road back. Items: ¶ Sales in 44 chain stores and mail-order houses in April reversed an eight-month slide, pushed 4.4% higher than a year ago. ¶The stock market hit another new high; Dow-Jones industrials rose 1.20, to 322.50. ¶The bond market was booming. Connecticut's first $100 million bond issue for its $398 million toll expressway was snapped up by 250 investment bankers. The Treasury Department offered $2.2 billion in 4¼-year notes, got so many...