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Sophomore Bill Chadsey turned in the best performance of the day in the 200-yard breaststroke, winning easily in 2:28.8, some five seconds slower than the top mark in last year's Yale meet. Teammate John McJennett was close in his wake to complete a Crimson sweep of the event...
...home, in the wake of elections he narrowly won, Adenauer is probably less popular than ever. In the West, some wish he had given way to a younger, more tractable man. Yet by an extraordinary combination of high moral fervor and ruthless political skill, Adenauer, at the start of his fourth term as Chancellor, remains the unshakable spokesman for his nation-the man who led defeated and despised Germany firmly into "the Christian world of the West...
Wall Street professionals found plenty of reasons for the rise: brisk auto sales, some cooling of the Berlin crisis, and the expectation of more Government spending in the wake of last week's Democratic election victories. But the sharpest spur to the market came from General Motors Corp., which raised its annual dividend from $2 to $2.50 per share by declaring its first year-end extra dividend since the record auto-sales year of 1955. Avowedly based on the prospect of fast year-end auto sales-because of the August auto strike, G.M.'s third-quarter earnings were...
...Frontier. How goes the avantgarde? A survey of the present leaders in the little magazine field (Evergreen Review, New World Writing, Contact, Noble Savage, Paris Review) suggests some unexpected findings: 1) There is no longer much interest in experimenting in form; Joyce (with Finnegans Wake) and e. e. cummings tried everything worth trying, pushing human comprehension to its last frontier. On balance, the new writers seem to have concluded that there is nothing very much there. 2) The fires of radicalism have grown cold. Thirty years ago, the little magazines were militantly leftist as a matter of course; today nothing...
...long since past for Americans to wake up to the serious social and economic problems of Latin America," he said, but the "information curtain" has hindered this process...