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Jumpy Moods. Behind Kennedy lay his first full week of campaigning as a national candidate, along a trail that covered Alaska, Michigan, and the far West. It was a week of ups and downs, exhilarating and disappointing by turn. In Detroit, 35.000 listless labor unionists turned up in Cadillac Square for the traditional Labor Day speech-far fewer than the 100,000 the labor bosses had promised. In Portland, Ore., on the other hand, several hundred latecomers were turned away at the door of the Civic Auditorium, while the youthful capacity crowd of 6,000 whooped it up inside with...
...weeks the Wall Street bullshave been impatiently waiting for the market's traditional "summer rise." Last week, after two listless, post-holiday trading sessions the market bounced upward 4.52 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average for the biggest gain in a month, closed out the week up another 2.02, at 646.91. Whether or not this little bounce would prove the beginning of the summer rise, the surprising and heartening factor in the market's advance was that steels led the way. For the week, U.S. Steel rose 3¼, and Jones & Laughlin, Lukens and Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
...Massachusetts' listless primary, only 6% of the electorate trickled to the polls to give Native Son Kennedy the state's 41 Democratic convention votes. Nixon easily nailed down 38 G.O.P. votes...
Against Columbia, the varsity stumbled through a listless first half and was never in contention. The Lions, paced by guard Murray Melton and forward Ed Auzenbergs, hit on 16 out of 34 shots in the first 20 minutes while limiting the Crimson to nine...
...Spiegel, has been publishing a 60,000-word series of articles based on three years of research by its staff. Its contention: Van der Lubbe did it alone after all. Der Spiegel pictures him as a warped idealist of more than ordinary intelligence whose strange courtroom behavior-alternately listless or roaring with laughter-resulted from "many months in solitary confinement, chained to the wall with a bright electric light burning day and night...