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...comfortable Cambridge apartment when he transferred to Harvard. After graduating cum laude (history and government) in 1942, Susskind served a tour in the Navy before he began running in earnest. Work as a movie pressagent, then as an actors' agent, taught him his stride. But he began to move out in front when he joined his friend Alfred,Levy, also an actors' agent, formed Talent Associates and began to package television shows...
...Edmunds shot to the front at the start and passed the 220 mark in 22 seconds. With 150 yards to go, he had opened up an eight-yard lead on Gordon, but the Crimson captain unleashed a futile stretch drive that cut into Edmund's margin with every stride...
...first 440 yards in 54.0, and it seemed he might go all the way until Schumacher caught him with about 350 yards remaining. Hanne passed Schumacher with 180 yards to go and looked like a sure winner, when Cahn came from nowhere and caught him with his last stride. Yeomans and Gordon then finished one-two in the 220, giving the Crimson 17 out of 18 points in the sprints...
West Germany's government took another stride toward making good on Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard's belief that a free-enterprising government should not be in big business. On public sale fortnight ago went a sizable block of stock in one of the 300 nationalized companies inherited by the government after World War II: 300,000 shares of the big (1958 sales estimate: $178 million) Preussag mining combine, whose activities range from coal mining to oil refining. The government took the step with some misgivings: a 1958 poll seemed to indicate that 40% of all Germans had little...
...popularity, the AmEx tape often trails five, ten, even 25 minutes behind. Its nearly 1,300 tickers, which transmit prices to 215 cities, print only 300 characters a minute. But able AmEx President Edward ("Ted") McCormick, 49, a onetime SECommissioner who has brought the AmEx a long stride toward maturity since he came in eight years ago, plans soon to modernize by installing 500-character-a-minute machines...