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There more than 40,000 McCarthyites jammed into the 34,000 seats breaking all records and the fire laws. A McCarthy staff member disclosed that they had oversold for the rally by 5000. Another 10,000 supporters supposedly were turned away outside. It was the largest gathering in McCarthy's eight month campaign...
That may be, but back home, Americans are more inclined than ever to take a skeptical view of such predictions. The feeling is strong that officials in Washington and Saigon have oversold the war all along, and many continue...
...resurgence? The most obvious reason was that many stocks had been oversold and there were bargains to be had. Another reason, as the week went on, were encouraging words from Washington about one of Wall Street's nagging worries. The Street has feared for some time that Viet Nam might bring on wage and price controls, as the Korean War did, which would dampen profits and decrease stock values. But last week Commerce Secretary John T. Connor told a Washington conference that there was "no indication now" of controls being necessary. Administration Economics Adviser Arthur M. Okun...
...Oversold. Milward issued a statement passing the blame on to the Rolls-Royce Tyne engines that power BEA's 19 Vanguard propjets. Since mid-May, metal fragments have been showing up in the engine oil sumps, and they were found to come from compressor bearings. Pilots have had to call off flights just before takeoff because they have found oil pressure too low, and with as many as four Vanguards at a time in the shop for repairs, often due to a shortage of spare parts, the fault has had a snowball effect on BEA schedules. The newer three...
...recollections of travelers, there were grumblings that BEA's troubles were more than a temporary matter of faulty compressor bearings. There were complaints of repeated delays of many hours, of misrouted baggage, of surly or couldn't-care-less service at ticket counters, of flights oversold by as many as 20 tickets, of cabin crews dispatched to the wrong planes, and of flights simply canceled at the last minute-as many as four in a day. Like other airlines, BEA prints conditions on its tickets, such as "No particular time is fixed for commencement or completion of carriage...