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...civil rights strife, the American consumer is pouring out vast amounts of money for new wheels. With the year half gone, Detroit has sold 3,830,725 cars, a jump of 342,994 over the same period in 1967. And automakers were happily predicting that if 1968 does not surpass the alltime record of 1965, it will still be a 9,000,000-plus year-perhaps the second best ever...
...nations surpass the U.S. in overall homicide rates, all of them Latin lands, where violence is stimulated by the code of machismo. But with a rate of 5.6 homicides per 100,000, the U.S. has the dubious distinction of outpacing, by far, all other industrialized nations which have stringent gun laws. This is true especially in gun deaths. In 1962, there were 29 murders by gunfire in all of England and Wales (with one-fourth the U.S. population), 37 in Japan (with one-half the population) and 4,954 in the U.S. Out of 400,000 criminals arrested in England...
...time national champion still has a chance to surpass Pera tonight in the free skating competition, the deciding event in the championship...
...first four days of the drive yielded $19,300, Eugene Warner III '70, treasurer of the drive, said yesterday. With the extra day, he added, he expects to surpass last year's total of $24,000. The Yard has already beaten its record for last year, according to Warner...
Chairman of the Rockefeller group, John A. Beckett, a professor at the University of New Hampshire, said in an interview that he has seen polls that show that a Rockefeller write-in effort could come close to or even surpass Romney, whose name is on the ballot...