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...took a breather in Scranton, Pa., Jack Kennedy was grey with fatigue, and his right hand was sore from being grabbed, squeezed, clutched at in some twelve hours of campaigning. It had been a day to remember: all through the mine-scarred countryside of Pennsylvania, from Bethlehem to Allentown to Wilkes-Barre, the people poured out, half a million strong, screaming, tossing food and gifts into Kennedy's open Ford, waving flags...
Bull or Bear? Was this the end of the slide, or only a breather in the midst of a big bear market? Sidney Lurie of Josephthal & Co. shot off a wire at midweek to trusts and big customers reading: "Seems to me we're days if not hours away from a real trading bottom. I'd watch for buys...
...After his wife's death in 1951, Dr. Townsend spent his days restlessly traveling, speaking to the faithful, trying to rekindle the old fires. In the midst of a tour last month, he caught pneumonia, died of complications in Long Beach last week, a wispy old-fire breather of 93, unknown or half-forgotten by most Americans. But he was remembered with a nervous twinge by an older generation of politicians, and mourned by 1.000,000 faithful followers in the remaining 2,000 Townsend clubs...
With the nation in a vacation mood last week, business also seemed to be taking a breather. The Federal Reserve Board reported that the industrial production index declined in June by 1% to 109 of the 1957 average, due primarily to the cut in steel production. This left the index two points lower than the high of 111 last January. But if production was off a bit, consumer buying in June ($18.7 billion) was a record for the month...
...year is divided into three semesters instead of the standard two. Each semester runs 15 weeks: September through the middle of December, January through the second week in April, the last week of April through the first week of August. Students in the plan get a month's breather after the third semes ter, then start in again. Students and teachers both may take either two or three semesters each year. If they choose three, students can finish college, go on to graduate school and embark on a profession while they are still quite young. As for the teachers...