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...which they appear. The researchers must know the best source for an existing picture and how to spot the right photographer in the right place for the right subject. They have a sharp eye for early-stage picture editing-a talent that, as anyone might guess, rose to a peak when they helped the editors select pictures of themselves for use on this page this week...
Pinnacle & Hint. By now, King was swamped with speaking engagements, whose peak perhaps was his peroration at the Lincoln Memorial. "I have a dream!" he cried, and it seemed his dream was becoming reality. King reached the pinnacle in 1964, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the 14th American, third Negro and youngest man to win the award...
...trading tapered off Thursday and Friday, but even so, the week's volume reached an alltime peak of 78,475,620 shares, topping a record of 65,948J60 shares set last Jan. 12. Despite a 6.71-point dip on Friday, the Dow-Jones industrials climbed 25.14 points during the week to 865.81. Investors bought heavily in automobiles, office equipment, savings and loans, electronics and glamour issues. Panicky speculators rushing to buy shares they had sold short in anticipation of falling prices accounted for some of the week's rush. More important, said brokers, mutual funds moved into...
...thing that bothers Nancy is that she still has not had time to complete her freshman year at Notre Dame University in Nelson, B.C. So last week, at the peak of her career, she made an announcement: "I have to set some new goals. One of them is a college degree." Next weekend, after the season's final meet at Heavenly Valley, Calif., Nancy will retire-which ought to make the French and Austrians even happier...
...Charles E. Fuller, 80, Baptist minister turned radio evangelist whose sermons reached 10 million weekly in the 1940s; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. "If you are not in Jesus Christ, you are a child ot Sa-tan!" cried Fuller on his Old-Fashioned Revival Hour, and at the peak of his career the message was beamed out every Sunday on 900 stations across the U.S. Though his popularity faded in recent years, he could still be heard on some 500 stations, many of which will continue to broadcast his sermons on tape...