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...entire Crimson team will have to be combat ready to overcome the powerful Huskies, who beat Michigan, 6-0, earlier in the week. The UConn squad toured Europe in early September and should be at the peak of its game...
...this kind of car market, however, even GM has troubles. Its profits as a percentage of sales have slumped from 10.3% at their peak in 1965 to 4.4% last year. The firm...
...Fourteen Points. During the '20s, Lippmann wrote editorials for the New York World, the most influential Democratic paper of its time. When the World folded in 1931, he went over to the Republican Herald Tribune. His column, "Today and Tomorrow," made him a celebrity; at its peak, it was carried by more than 200 papers and was considered required reading up and down the corridors of power. "Zip!" sang a stripper in the Broadway musical Pal Joey, "Walter Lippmann wasn't brilliant today." A series of TV interviews in the '60s exposed him to millions more...
...Some delegations, like Ohio, bitterly resented the decision. Several others called the trailer to object. "It's tough," said Strauss to Jordan. "A lot of these guys broke their backs for us." Finally the time had run out, the Kennedy fever on the floor was holding at a peak. Strauss and Jordan had no time to call the President to ask for directions; they had to move on their...
...honest advertising is unlikely to set off any stampede to buy bonds. Sales reached a patriotic peak during World War II, but in recent years the investing public has preferred to put its spare cash into stocks or socks. Last year only $144 million in bonds were sold, compared with $303 million...