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...20th century American history who are on the borderline: Douglas MacArthur, John F. Kennedy, perhaps Jack Dempsey. These are some who were loved by the great majority of people, but also hated by many, Franklin D. Roosevelt for one. And in rare instances, there are men who reach the peak of adulation, only to fall from favor and wind up mistrusted and disliked; Charles A. Lindbergh is the premiere example. Finding the genuine hero, someone whom an entire nation idolized, cared for, and most importantly identified with, is a difficult task. Yet few could contest the claim that Joe DiMaggio...
...Stade said the Union has increased the number of meals served by 50 per cent over the past two years. "We were running up to around 1200 meals on peak periods, but last week we went to 1800 for the first time," von Stade said. With a seating capacity of seven hundred at the Union, freshmen have been standing behind chairs waiting for seats, von Stade added...
...cannot allow ourselves to peak" and fall behind the progress other universities are making in undergraduate education, Rosovsky said. "Many institutions are snapping at our heels...
Which leaves the second possibility--that the undecideds will divide up pretty evenly between the two major candidates, giving Wyman only a slight edge, but just enough to win the seat. Durkin is very much past his peak, the machinations in Washington simply did not make him look good, and the chances of him winning are very small. Which means that Louis Wyman will finally win a long desired promotion to the upper house, and will have to bring his campaign against "the forces of big labor" to the U.S. Senate...
...bills rose from 6.4% in mid-August to nearly 6.6%: that is the most the Government has had to pay for short-term money since January. Recently the Treasury was forced to pay more than 8.5% on four-year notes, or barely .5 percentage points under the mid-1974 peak of 9%. Private borrowers, too, are beginning to feel a money pinch. Having settled down to a two-year low of 7% in early June, the prime rate charged for credit-worthy corporate customers has inched back up to 7¾% at most commercial banks...