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...Georgia (8-1)-scored a touchdown in the last 30 seconds to nip stubborn Auburn, 14-13, clinch the championship of the Southeastern Conference...
...most monumental binges of modern times. Proudly proclaimed Wife Beatrice, who did not accompany Behan on his summer pub safari: "He's been off the gargle for a week or two. He's been very good." In a Piccadilly bar, Behan hoisted just one wee nip and bellowed: "To success!" Clinking glasses with him, Beatrice responded: "Success to abstinence!" Then Behan lumbered off to the theater to catch a performance ..of his London hit, The Hostage. At play's end, to cries of "Author!" he took the stage, smiled with clear-eyed modesty, drew a big hand...
Wall Street's golden bull added still more muscle last week. Shrugging off a nip at margin accounts by the Federal Reserve (see below), the U.S. investor drove the market to still another historic high. Led by some of the nation's biggest corporations, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average rose to 637.04 at midweek. By the final gong at week's end, profit taking had clipped only 2.51 points from the mark to put the weekly gain at 13.17 points...
...auto divisions, languishing in sixth place in overall U.S. car sales. Last week "Bunky" Knudsen's hot-rodding Pontiac was at the top of the medium-price field, with 30% of that market; sales were up (117% in April, 60% for the year), and Pontiac was in a nip-and- tuck race with lower-priced Plymouth for third place in overall standings. On G.M.'s corporate-profit sheets, Pontiac stood second only to Chevrolet; around the G.M. building in Detroit there was quiet talk that Bunky Knudsen might well become G.M. president some day. From the start, Bill...
...crash program to nip a developing polio epidemic, a U.S. Public Health Service team recommends quick inoculation of the unvaccinated with a whopping shot of Salk vaccine-10 cc., or ten times the dose now given in each of three injections. In the New England Journal of Medicine they report no ill effects from such doses in volunteers, and much quicker development of immunity...