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MONDAY, May 21: The slowest trading day in ten months. Three stocks fall for every two that rise. Tobacco stocks lead the downswing, and the Dow-Jones industrial index slips 2.11 points...
Though it has proportionately more school-age children (30.8% of the population) than any other state, South Carolina is one of the slowest learners in the Union. Almost half of all eighth-graders fail to go on and finish high school, 54.4% of all registrants fail the Selective Service mental test, and no other state boasts fewer median years (8.7) of schooling completed by adults. More than 20% of South Carolinians are in fact "functional illiterates," for one out of five has less than five years of schooling...
Last week Brazil's mercurial ex-President Jânio Quadros was homeward bound, by the slowest possible means. In Hong Kong he boarded a freighter that is not scheduled to reach Rio de Janeiro until March 9. Already, however, Brazilians were getting that old familiar feeling-"Here Comes Jânio." In northeastern Maranhāo state, a federal deputy announced the formation of a national front to return Jânio Quadros to control of the nation he deserted five months ago in a tantrum against congressional obstruction. Quadros had been chosen President ten months earlier...
Late afternoon winds from the southwest made the race tough going all the way for the boats. The winning time was the slowest in the history of the race, and was bettered by one minute and 20 seconds by the JV winner just an hour earlier. M.I.T. won that race in 5:58.8, followed by Princeton, Harvard, and Dartmouth...
...Rheingold: Conductor Heinz Tiet-jen's fast time of two hours and 17 minutes set in 1934 has never been beaten. Slowest time for the distance: two hours and 42 minutes in 1951 by Hans Knap-pertsbusch, long regarded, but unclocked, as a relatively "slow" conductor...