Word: cresting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...auto industry continues to ride a crest of new-car sales. November figures set an alltime high for the month, to reach 530,393 U.S.-built cars, breaking the 1955 record by 1,214 units. Though about one in four of the sales is in the heavily discounted, strongly pushed, leftover 1960 models, the sales volume has cut 1960 models on dealers' lots to only 115,000. It has also gradually slowed the rate of accumulation of cars by dealers, one of the industry's biggest worries. November new-car shipments to dealers exceeded sales by only...
...varsity wrestling team will meet Franklin and Marshall tonight at Lancaster, Pa. The Crimson, riding on the crest of a 22-8 upset win over Williams, is expected to defeat the graduation-weakened Franklin and Marshall squad...
Riding on the crest of a 2-0 record, the squad will use Captain Larry Johnson, Walter McBeth, Lonnie Wheeler, and Ted Boorama at foil: John Tiel, Heder, and Jim Pusey at sabre: and Bill Bonnet, John Reckler, and Peter in the epee division...
...beat him, it would certainly increase Nixon's 1964 presidential chances. But a loss to Brown would surely be the end of the Nixon road: Is the gain worth the big risk? Some Nixon advisers work on another thesis: come 1964, Kennedy may be riding a high crest of popularity. Nixon is still young. If 1964 looks unpromising for a Republican candidate, let Nelson Rockefeller or Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater run and lose. Then 1968 would be Nixon...
...Frigid Fluid Co. of Chicago advertises: "NEW! NEW! NEW! Lanol-Tex Arterial Fluid . . . Nature's Own Way to Soft Skin Texture," which "restores the same condition to the skin as during life." Boasts the Gold Crest Chemical Corp. of Wilmington, Del.: "Everybody is talking about Rubin-X Jaundice Dual Injection Fluids," which give "a gentle and fast-bleaching action with no spotting." If not satisfactory, "you may return to us for full credit after embalming your first case...