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...Amateur championships nerving himself up to proper pitch. He sprayed his drives, flubbed his putts. Somehow, he managed to hang on. All around him, as they almost always do in the amateur championships, amateur hot-shots stumbled and fell. Billy Joe Patton, the hard-hitting Carolina lumber dealer was cut down in the second round; last year's runner-up, Charles Kocsis, was bumped in the fifth; Willie Turnesa, winner in 1938 and 1948, lost a 24-hole marathon to an unknown Florida insurance underwriter named Jack Penrose. Just as he began to get his game under control, Robbins...
...makes the inflationary spiral particularly crippling is that carloadings, the bread and meat of railroading, have fallen 2.9% up to mid-August, partly reflecting some tapering off in the economy, partly bad weather (floods and crop failures). Livestock and products, though only a small part of loadings, dropped 24.5%; lumber and other forest products, hit by a decline in housing starts, were down 12.9%. Coal was down 1.1%, merchandise shipments of less-than-carload quantity down 8.7%. Most important, the miscellaneous category that includes almost all U.S. manufactured goods and makes up roughly 50% of all loadings dropped nearly...
...Congress has balked at the important but unpopular reforms on the Klein & Saks program. The Congress refused a 20% cut in government staff, and government expenses rose this year instead of dropping, as planned. It also balked at an antitrust bill to curb monopolistic, inflationary practices in the lumber, paper, cement and tobacco industries. Meanwhile, the government itself hesitated to tighten collections of income taxes, which are high in theory but evaded in practice. And the armed services continued to waste money; e.g., the Navy still keeps in commission the Almirante Latorre, probably the only relic still afloat from...
...Madison, Wis. Filled with bubbles made by hydrogen gas, the new metal is one-tenth as heavy as aluminum sheet, can be sawed, nailed, bolted or glued to other objects. Immediate military use: as lightweight parts in jet planes. Potential civilian use: as a fireproof, rot-resistant substitute for lumber in residential house construction...
...into the woods, felled and milled timber, and built with his own hands a house at the foot of the mountain and a 7Oo-ft. ladder up its side. For two years, until he rigged a makeshift cable hoist and then built a road to the top, he lugged lumber and equipment up the mountain, piece by piece, on his back. He made a model and set out to carve out of the rock mountain the figure of Crazy Horse mounted on a plunging steed. To the derisive question of the white man, "Where are your lands now?", his figure...