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...economy's rate of expansion slipped from a boomy 9.2% in the first quarter to a merely salutary 4.4% in the second. The Commerce Department's June index of leading indicators, the Government's key barometer of future business trends, inched up only .3%, the smallest rise in seven months...
...semifinals Saturday morning, but the finals were a different matter. Off the blocks first was Trinidad's Crawford, and there he stayed, fighting off Borzov midway, then Quarrie at the wire in 10:06. Borzov and Glance were third and fourth, as one of the Olympics' smallest countries ran off with a big gold...
...Second and third come the Philippines (31,751) and Korea (28,362), whereas in 1965 the 4,057 immigrants from Taiwan were the only Asian group among the largest 15. The U.K. and Germany, which used to rank three and four, now rank eleven and 16. (Among the smallest contingents, Monaco, Chad and Pitcairn Island, one each...
...methodical, almost obsessively orderly man, Jefferson has long kept a garden book in which he jots down when the flowers bloom at Monticello and when they die, as well as various account books in which even the smallest expenditure and receipt are entered. More recently, he has begun a farm book to record his plantings and crops, and in another ledger he has started recording each day's temperature. Last week, on the day his Declaration was accepted, he observed not only that the temperature was 68° at 6 o'clock in the morning but that it was 72?...
...simply overpowers everything else on the screen. You groan, you shake your head, you laugh wildly at each new lunacy, but you cannot help being fascinated by the man. In the gloomy middle years of his career, he used to demonstrate his contempt for the medium by giving the smallest part of his talents. Now he has apparently decided to give too much, to parody himself. His work in Missouri Breaks is not so much a performance as it is a finger thrust joyously upward by an actor who has survived everything, including his own self-destructive impulses...