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...BRAZIL. After a two-and-a-half-year tailspin toward chaos and Communism under the erratic rule of leftist President João ("Jango") Goulart, the armed forces of Latin America's biggest country finally lost patience and sent him packing (see THE HEMISPHERE). Despite the fact that this was a military coup against a constitutional regime, State Department officials made no attempt to conceal their pleasure over Jango's fall. The moment Brazil's Congress gave the new regime a legal base by naming Goulart's next-in-line to succeed him, President Lyndon Johnson...
Unless the Crimson goes into a tailspin in its last five games, its present 11-5 record against E.C.A.C. opponents pretty well assures it a berth in the tournament. Another factor in its favor is its two resounding victories over non-Eastern Minnesota and Toronto during the Christmas holidays...
...earn more than $1 billion in a single year. Giant IBM and DuPont both set new earnings records. Hardly any segment of the economy failed to gain. Most of the once ailing railroads made healthy profits, and the airlines, which only two years ago were in a financial tailspin, climbed to new heights of profit. TWA turned a $5,700,000 loss in 1962 into record earnings of $19.7 million last year. Many of the smaller steel companies nearly doubled their earnings in 1963, and giant U.S. Steel, now in the throes of a major reorganization, achieved its highest profit...
There were other early warning signals: last summer, many of the high-riding glamour stocks went into a tailspin, and by last autumn a few Wall Street professionals anxiously noted that, although the Dow-Jones average was still going up, there were many days when more stocks were falling than rising on the New York Stock Exchange...
Then on Monday, May 14, came what Wall Streeters hopefully called "the selling climax." In one furious hour during the morning, selling reached near-panic proportions. The index went into a 14-point tailspin to a low of 626. The highspeed Teletype tape that reports New York Stock Exchange transactions was so swamped that it fell 34 minutes behind-its worst performance in nearly 30 years...