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...lineups are tougher to figure out than a double crostic. Both squads have a number of swimmers capable of near-record performances in any of several events. Tonight's winner depends largely on how well the coaches manipulate their talent...
...ORDERS for durable goods, spurred in part by hedge buying of steel against the possibility of a strike in July, climbed to a near-record $16.4 billion in December. One strong sign of confidence: new orders of durable goods ran well ahead of sales ($15.8 billion...
...alone account for consumer sluggishness. The unemployment rate remains high, noted Rosenbaum, and there has been a fall-off in the rate of U.S. marriages (down from 9.5 new families per 1,000 population in 1956 to 8.5 last year). Perhaps even more important, consumers are weighed down with near-record installment debt and with record quantities of already purchased durable goods...
...perhaps even generating enough profits and tax revenues for a tax cut next year. In its semi-annual forecast out this week, FORTUNE reached much the same conclusions. It predicted that by Christmas of 1962 the U.S. will see a $575 billion G.N.P. and a near-record 25% jump from the recession low in the Federal Reserve Board's Industrial Production Index. Suggesting that unemployment may well drop below the Administration's "acceptable" rate of 4% by the end of next year, FORTUNE added: "It is a real question whether there will be enough productive capacity...
While major league muscle boys were poling home runs at near-record rates, a lean, goodlooking outfielder who has only two to his credit this season was demonstrating a different sort of batting prowess. Cleveland Indian Centerfielder Jimmy Piersall, 31. was spraying line drives to all fields, collecting so many base hits that, at week's end, he sported a batting average a flashy 90 points over his lifetime .272 mark. The young father of eight led both leagues in hits and was a big reason for his team's surge into a three-way American League battle...