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Simpson has been the workhorse of Southern California, carrying the ball 334 times, a record, and gaining 1654 yards, another national record. U.S.C. is ranked number two in the nation with nine straight victories and will play in the Rose Bowl...
...Graduate School of Education, 30 per cent of those admitted normally do not attend. This year, the figure was 45 per cent. The percentage at the Law School rose ten points from about 32 to 42 per cent. Admittance figures for the Graduates School of Arts and Sciences are unavailable...
...miracle remains elusive. Last week the Board of Trade reported that Britain's trade deficit rose to $158.4 million in October-double the September deficit-as exports dropped sharply and imports climbed to a near-record level. The trade deficit for the whole year is now expected to reach $1.68 billion, the highest figure since 1951. As one consequence, instead of achieving the "substantial surplus" in its overall balance of payments that Wilson foresaw, Britain is heading for a $600 million deficit this year...
...country overcome its chronic habit of living beyond its means. Lately, under prodding from abroad, the British have been pondering whether to rely more on controlling the money supply to regulate the pace of business. During the second quarter of this year, the amount of money in circulation rose at the inflationary rate of 10% a year. Many economists now contend that this was an underlying cause of the worrisome consumer-spending spree. Argues London's influential weekly, the Economist: "The British government's views on money supply are completely out of date...
Long a major Asian banking, insurance and warehousing center, Singapore last year moved ahead of London into fourth place among the world's ports. Its gross national product rose by 11% to an estimated $1 billion, making the tiny republic (pop. 2,000,000) the third richest on a per capita basis in Asia, after Japan and Hong Kong. Recently, Singapore applied for full currency convertibility under the rules of the International Monetary Fund. That means that its dollar is healthy enough to be freely exchangeable with other currencies, and that Lee is succeeding in his program for survival...