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...1930s, took in the sights with his wife, their nine children, and an orphan boy whom he is caring for at his Cedar Point spread. Cunningham ran 20 races in less than 4 min. 10 sec., a time that college milers beat regularly today, and the former Kansas flash saw no end to the improvement. "They'll get the time under 3:48," a full 6.4 sec. better than the current world mark, he said, and nominated one candidate for the feat: 14-year-old Glenn Jr. Said Glenn Sr.: "He can out run most of the high school...
Atomic Energy Commission scientists last week were "keyed up and ready" to take the U.S. into a new high level of nuclear testing. First shot on the agenda: a giant skyrocket exploding not more than 60 miles above Johnston Island, its sub-megaton flash visible in Hawaii 700 miles away, its power sending waves of electrical disturbance around the earth to be picked up by sensitive instruments...
...night, Boston Investment Counselor Garfield Drew, the champion of the Odd Lots Theory (TIME, March 31, 1961), rushed out 4,500 telegrams urging purchases of such hard-hit issues as Polaroid, Xerox and American Machine & Foundry. On Wall Street, mighty Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith sent out a "Buy Flash"; so did Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, E. F. Hutton, Francis I. du Pont, and other influential brokerage houses. The long-distance wires hummed from Minneapolis, where the nation's biggest mutual fund group, Investors Diversified Services, was placing orders for $20 million worth of common stocks...
Saved by a Flash. Faithfully as they had imitated Blue Monday's plunge, foreign exchanges shot up on the news of Wall Street's Tuesday rally. On the Frankfurt Exchange, Volkswagen shares abruptly jumped from $125 to $145-higher than before the price break. In London, the Evening News headlined BOOM AFTER GLOOM and the Financial Times index showed its biggest morning surge since the 1959 Tory election win-though prices sagged again by week's end. Most dramatic of all was the recovery of the Sydney Stock Exchange: slow to receive news of Blue Monday, Australian...
...moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius...