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Confounding the Forecasters. The economy's summer performance has indeed surprised almost everybody. "The consumer has confounded the forecasters by spending as much money after the tax increase as before," says Leif Olsen, senior vice president and economist of Manhattan's First National City Bank. That buying spree has been especially notable in autos, appliances and clothing. Retail sales not only jumped 3% in July to a record $29 billion, but climbed a bit more during August. Early figures for September indicated that shoppers were spending 9% more in the stores than they were a year earlier...
...bunker, lifted his hands and cried out for mercy. A fusillade from a Communist automatic weapon killed him; his wife died moments later when the North Vietnamese sprayed the inside of the bunker with small-arms fire. On leaving the mission, the Reds kidnaped another American nurse, Miss Betty Olsen, 32, and Henry Blood of Portland, Ore., a member of the Wycliffe Bible Translators...
...ride. Right Tackle Roger Brown, 30, operates on the theory that "the opposing team hates me and is trying to cut off my career, so I'm going to hurt them first"-and at 6 ft. 5 in. and 295 Ibs., it hurts a lot. Left Tackle Merlin Olsen, 27 (6 ft. 5 in., 275 Ibs.), is the intellectual of the bunch-he is writing his master's thesis on "The World Sugar Crisis," and says: "Racking up quarterbacks is exciting. I like to bloody them up a little...
...exact count, Olsen and his chums have nailed enemy quarterbacks behind the line of scrimmage no less than 43 times this year, and they have allowed opposing runners an average of only 3.1 yds. per carry. "Some day," says Merlin, "the four of us want to play the perfect game: allow them no points and minus yards on the ground, and even off their passing yardage by dumping their quarterback...
Springfield did not win another event until the 200-yard backstroke. Steve Olsen's weak 5:04.7 was good enough to edge Harvard's Al Birch...