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...wanted to be unifier and savior, uplifter of the poor at home and father of democracy in Asia. He yearned to be a latter-day Lincoln to the blacks, to outshine F.D.R.'s memory among reformers, to surpass Truman's humane but hardheaded foreign-policy record, to evoke the affection accorded Eisenhower. Above all, Lyndon Johnson ached for the trust of today's voters and the respect of tomorrow's scholars...
...sales will surpass the all-time peak of 9,300,000 set in 1965. Purists may note that this year's total will include about a million imports, way up from 600,000 in 1965, but that scarcely diminishes the cheer at the Detroit Athletic Club. All the automakers are marketing more than last year, when a strike at Ford stalled production, and sales amounted to 8,300,000. Ford has won a 27% share of this year's bigger market, a gain of 2.8 percentage points, mostly at the expense of General Motors, whose share...
Yale quarterback Brian Dowling threw a career-high three touchdown passes last week--leading his team to a 25-13 victory over Cornell--and needs only five more this year to surpass the Yale record of 15 TD passes in a year. Three Yale receivers have each caught three touch-down passes, and end Nick Davidson four...
Unprecedented Defiance. Russia's Czechoslovak invasion may, in fact, prove to be a watershed in the development of Communism that could surpass in importance the breakaways of Yugoslavia and China from what was a monolithic world organization at the close of World War II. In an unprecedented show of defiance, the great majority of the world's 88 Communist parties have refused to approve Moscow's action against Czechoslovakia. Albania, China's Adriatic ally, even seized on the occasion last week to announce its complete withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact...
...capital on European money markets. Last week the Government reported that U.S. corporations figure to borrow, or arrange to borrow, more than $3 billion abroad this year. Because of their success in arranging loans such as these, the total U.S. corporate investment abroad this year is expected to surpass the $10.2 billion it totaled in 1967-without increasing the dollar outflow...