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...other shoulders. Chris Ford is great at three-point shots, but when that's your strength... And Gerald Henderson is, to put it mildly, unproven. He showed flashes of leadership in the playoffs, and lots of hustle all season. But his 6.2 points per game will have to soar, or Auerbach will be on the phone to see if Jo Jo White has any little brothers...
Cambridge City Manager James L. Sullivan told the City Council last night that the city's tax rate will soar $42 next year--and that news made the council reluctant moments later to support pay hikes for high-level city employees...
...Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices did not increase in July. That was the first month that the cost of living had not risen in more than 13 years. But experts quickly admitted that this was a statistical fluke. The cost of food, automobiles and medical care continued to soar, but that was offset by the 5.7% decline in mortgages. Thus the prices that most people pay most often are still rising...
...cuisine, it is expected to help U.S. grain sales. Chinese imports of U.S. wheat, which totaled just 300,000 tons three years ago, could top 5 million tons this year. And if nearly 1 billion Chinese take a liking to hamburger buns or Danish, wheat exports could soar. The only problem may be that many people will complain that they are hungry again an hour after eating a jelly doughnut...
...have been a declaration of new understanding acquired in today's world. Its specifics are almost less important than the sense of the moment that the speech acknowledged. It was a time for poetry in the affairs of the country, a moment to show spirit and feeling and to soar, rather than to list and explain and justify. Perhaps Kennedy knew that this was the declaration of purpose he never spoke for Roger Mudd last November when the CBS interviewer asked him why he wanted to be President, and also perhaps a belated acknowledgment that the nation and the world...