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WANDERING AMERICANS will lay out $28 billion for travel this year, up 12% from record 1958. They will spend $2.5 billion in foreign travel in 1959, close to $5 billion by 1964, predicts American Society of Travel Agents...
...coast are solidly optimistic about their prospects. In household furniture alone, says Paul Brandt, president of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers, retail sales should top $4.3 billion for a 10% jump ahead of 1958. Boston, Atlanta, Denver. San Francisco retailers already report sales above last year, despite the record Christmas buying...
...Record performances by Henry Abbott and Ed Bailey brightened an otherwise dull showing by the Crimson track team in last Saturday's K. of C. invitational meet. Abbott set a new University shot put mark with a 51 ft., 6 in. heave, and Bailey threw the 35-lb. weight 51 ft., 11 in. to break his own freshman record...
...Indoor Record...
Thomas was, as usual, sensational. The freshman high jump prodigy cleared every height through 6 ft., 10 3/4 in. without a miss. Then, after missing his first attempt, he went over the bar at 6 ft., 11 3/4 in. for a new world record, eclipsing the one he set last week...