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...Prime Minister last week. Mike Pearson had reason to feel weary. Since taking office early last year, his minority Liberal government has weathered no fewer than 25 votes of confidence; its defenses are often weak and clumsy in the uncontrolled parliamentary debates, its legislative program is making only the slowest progress. And like Pearson, Canada's politicians, its press and public are beginning to get tired of the game...
Pigeon-Toed & Knock-Kneed. Bob Hayes's mother remembers that he was a late walker and the slowest dishwasher in the family. Jake Gaither, Florida A. & M.'s football coach, recalls the first time he saw Hayes run: "I had to smile a little. He was pigeon-toed and knock-kneed, and he sort of wobbled. 'Jake,' they told me, 'you've got to teach that boy how to run.' But then I saw how he left those defensive backs behind, and I said, 'Let him alone...
Companies must grant credit to attract the free-wheeling Brazilian shopper, but extending credit has become costly for business. Customers understandably prefer to put off paying, because their wages are rising faster than prices; thus, as each inflationary month passes, the bills in effect become smaller. Among the slowest payers: the Brazilian government, which seldom honors its bills promptly; last week the U.S. and five other nations agreed to ease the burden of Brazil's $3 billion debt by stretching out payment schedules. Businessmen are finding it difficult even to keep on hand enough cash to carry on. Willys...
...more important than the emotion of the isolated issue of the "freedom stay-out" is what the boycott has done to strength Boston's civil rights movement. The Hub has been slowest of the northern industrial centers to evolve a militant civil rights movement. Partly this is because the Negroes population is relatively small, partly it is because Negroes here are not quite so oppressively impoverished as in New York or Chicago. New York passed through these relatively pleasant phases of the movement which Boston is experiencing well over a year ago. The Negro civil rights leadership there...
...starter's flag dropped-and the race seemed over before it really began. Blasting nearly full-bore into the shallow-banked turns, the lighter (by 600 Ibs.) Lotus-Fords made the U.S. cars look like dump trucks. After 20 miles, Clark and Gurney were already lapping the slowest Offies. Parnelli Jones gave up the chase with magneto failure on the 43rd lap. U.S.A.C. Sprint Champion Roger Mc-Cluskey rammed into California's Chuck Hulse, and both Offies cracked into the retaining wall at close to 100 m.p.h., although neither driver was hurt. At the end of 50 miles...