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...contested ballots are to be submitted to a panel of three district court judges; whatever the panel decides, the loser is almost certain to take the issue to the state Supreme Court. Until it reaches a decision, Elmer Andersen remains Governor-on about as precarious a political perch as ever existed anywhere...
...Quinlan and Willie Davis-two of the fiercest pass rushers in pro ball. Safetyman Willie Wood, an agile opportunist who leads the N.F.L. with nine pass interceptions this year, was signed as a free agent-nobody else wanted him-and All-League Guard Fred Thurston was a three-time loser (Chicago. Philadelphia. Baltimore) when Lombardi rescued him from obscurity in a trade with the Colts. About 50% of today's Packers were already on the roster, but nobody would have known it: Jim Taylor was a second-string fullback; Paul Hornung was a sometime quarterback, sometime halfback, sometime fullback...
Despite the predictions of local experts that he was in trouble, the incumbent Gaullist Robert Hauret won easily on the first ballot with 369 votes, 163 more than he polled in 1958. Beside Poujade, the big loser was the Independent candidate, on the more modern right, whose total slipped to 45 votes from 137. At the other extreme, the Communists and Socialists held their 24 voters but added...
Amexco takes good care of its own money too. Earnings last year were $9,200,000, and 1962 promises to be even better. The travel business has bounced back from a slowdown last year, and even Amexco's credit card operation, a consistent money loser since its introduction in 1958, has finally moved into the black. To turn the trick, Clark a year ago increased credit card dues from $6 to $8 a year, tightened credit and ordered his 100-man security force to pick up cards from deadbeats...
Fondly known in British banking circles as "Gussie,'' G.U.S. was a consistent money loser when Wolfson took it over in 1934. Today, says Glasgow-born Sir Isaac in his Scottish burr, "we are on the way to becoming the Sears of Britain.'' Openly copying Sears's methods, Great Universal manufactures much of its own furniture, clothing and appliances, sells its merchandise both through the mails and at retail outlets, and counts one British family in every four among its customers. Gussie's shares, now worth 450 times what they were when Sir Isaac joined...