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Personal income in October rose to a new record, further building up a force that eventually may give the economy the energy it needs to leap ahead. Department-store sales for the last week climbed to their highest level in 1960, though still running 2% behind last year. Most businessmen are hopefully predicting the best Christmas sales in history. Even housing construction, which had been sliding, surprisingly turned around against seasonal trends and rose 15% in October...
...China's Outward Leap...
...about it for the Crimson. Yale intercepted two more passes, including a magnificent defensive play by Muller on a Bartolet toss for Hank Hatch. Hatch was behind his man, and the pass was over the Eli halfback's head, but Muller saved almost sure touchdown with a perfectly timed leap...
Jangles & Bristles. It was a long leap from the days of bliss and blarney to the days of Ike, Nixon and Lodge, and before the moment of victory Jack Kennedy allowed himself to doubt that he might make it. In the final swing of the campaign, the Kennedy troupe was showing the frazzled edges of fatigue, even unaccustomed confusion. The motorcades in Connecticut and New York were dogged with inefficiency and out-of-kilter schedules ; so furious was Kennedy at one point that he stomped about in his Manhattan hotel room, called in his weary aides and chewed them...
...left hand, he cut down three of them, but was bayoneted by the fourth, the steel plunging deep into his chest. His face still extraordinary in its immobility, he seized the bayonet, pulled it out of his own flesh, cut down the man and, with another superhuman leap, cleared the wall and vanished into the darkness. We were left absolutely dumfounded...