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Comparisons were irresistible, but as the week's performances emphasized, Bruhn and Nureyev are not really comparable. Bruhn, a mature 38, has polished his classical style to a peak of powerful precision and expressive economy. In the U.S. premiere of his pas de deux for Romeo and Juliet, he evoked muted strains of Romeo's tragic ardor, but the focus was less on his characterization than on the discipline of his whippet leaps and turns and the flawless flow of his carries with Italy's graceful Carla Fracci. Marveled Nureyev: "His technique is too good...
...well-and its F-111 earnings will add a lot of lift to a company already flying high on other projects. Under Lewis, General Dynamics has spectacularly recovered from the staggering $214 million loss it wrote off on its Convair jetliners in 1961. Climbing back to its 1961 sales peak of $2 billion, the company last year earned $58 million on sales that were up by 22% to $1.8 billion. Nearly 80% of that comes from Government orders for items ranging from Atlas and Centaur rockets for NASA to Navy surface ships and nuclear-powered attack submarines...
...repeat that victory Harvard must finally hit its peak. Army showed few weaknesses in winning its third-straight Heptagonal championship last week...
Having slowed down to round a curve that could have led to recession, the U.S. economy now is on the straightaway and picking up speed. Last week the stock market, which reacts today to what investors expect of tomorrow, climbed to an eleven-month peak...
...Justice Department's fight against organized crime, according to the commission's report, reached its peak under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48, but lost its effectiveness in 1965. The commission attributed this decline to press charges of illegal wiretapping made against several federal agencies...