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Wilson won the debate as well as months of parliamentary peace as the House of Commons recessed until October. But he gained little else. Labor had pushed through 65 new bills-a near-record number-but most were concerned with the mechanics of ad ministration. Under the first Socialist government since 1951, Socialism had failed to advance an inch...
Missouri, which does most of its running on dirt tracks, won the team championship with 14 points. The outstanding performance of the meet was Morgan State's record 3:15.6 in the mile relay. Theron Lewis of Southern University ran the 440 in 47.8 seconds, and Okla homa State's two mile relay team recorded a near-record time...
...bullish sentiment was obvious on Wall Street, where the stock market rebounded strongly from last month's fall. In the second heaviest trading in more than a year (7,100,000 shares in one day), the Dow-Jones industrial average rose every day, climbing 18 points to a near-record...
Farmers should take in a near-record $36.6 billion this year despite a harvest that has been thinned by drought in many parts of the U.S. The results are even better for consumers. The products of U.S. farms are now so cheap and plentiful that Americans spend only 18.7% of their after-tax income for food v. 30% for families in England and France and nearly 50% in Russia...
...highest level in eleven months, and the industry is clearly headed for a record production year. Steel's wellbeing, of course, stems chiefly from the buoyant state of the auto industry, whose daily sales so far in May are running 1.5% ahead of last year's near-record rate. Ford is pacing the pack, has sold 20,454 Mustangs in the four weeks since the sports car's introduction. The other automakers also notice that their best-selling models are those that were either all new or sharply restyled for 1964. That gives them good reason...