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...first quarter of this year industrial productivity soared by an astonishing 10%. Symbolizing that performance, the Deutsche mark today ranks as the most stable currency in the inflation-beset industrial world. The mark's domestic purchasing power has declined by a comparatively modest 36% in 20 years. Second-best performer: the U.S. dollar, with a 41% drop in buying power over the same period...
...from 1965. Ford and Chrysler have both been able to show minuscule gains, but General Motors, with nearly half the market, is off 7.5%, and struggling American Motors Corp. is down by 18.5%. Despite such frustrations, 1966 should go down in Detroit history as the industry's second-best sales year...
...this was quite relative. The 1966 model-year did not live up to hopes, but it was a poor year only in the sense that it did not break the alltime records set in 1965. It will still stand as the second-best model-year in history...
...jump of 23-4 earned him second place. He triple-jumped 47-1, his best of the year, for a second in that event, and he high-jumped 6-11, his second-best jump ever...
Another elusive scientist is the excuse given for The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World, the most flagrantly imitative spoof of the lot. Its second-best agent is played with studied respect by one Tom Adams, who vaguely resembles Sean Connery. The film sputters with genuine excitement in the scramble for Regrav, a secret process for reversing the law of gravity. But the laws of levity begin to go topsyturvy as well in Agent's craven acts of homage to its prototype. Curling under Adams' sheets, one pussycat purrs: "I met someone like...