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...never even seen th Old Course before. Neither had Jack Nicklaus, 24, whose $24,000 victor the week before in the Whitemarsh Open put him back on top of pro golf's money-winning list (with $81,718) demonstrated that he was once more at the peak of his game-and persuaded British bookies to install him as the favorite, at 7 to 2. The odds on Lema...
...controlled 65% of the nation's steel sales 60 years ago has slipped almost steadily to a low of 24.2% of the present booming market; each percentage-point drop now means a loss of $150 million in annual sales. Though U.S. Steel last year reached a three-year peak in sales ($3.6 billion) and earnings ($203.5 million), its profit as a percentage of invested capital (4.9%) was the lowest among the majors, and as a percentage of sales (5.6%) was just average. In comparison, National Steel, which is one-quarter the size, led by both measures with returns...
...took a peak commitment of 19,400 United Nations troops to restore a sullen peace to the strife-torn Congo. By June 30, the last 3,000 members of the U.N. force will be withdrawn, and already chaos is coming back. Leopoldville has been rocked by a succession of antigovernment plastic-bomb explosions since May. In Kwilu Province, the Communist-inspired Jeunesse (youth), led by Pierre Mulele, still hold their own against Congolese troops. Though one of the Congo's provincial presidents recently sent Premier Cyrille Adoula a hippopotamus, the traditional sign of loyalty, it is clear that...
...have often been hurt, especially people who invest in railroad stocks. The Dow-Jones index of 20 railroad stocks needed a full 35 years to climb back to its 1929 high. But since it passed that mark last February, the rail average has been moving upward, reached an alltime peak of 208.95 three weeks...
Mexico's imported gringos include all kinds. At the peak there are the sleek fat cats of Cuernavaca and Acapulco, reading their airmailed New York Times in their white-walled gardens and practicing kitchen-Spanish on the servants, who have servants of their own. At the other end of the scale, and potentially more important to both Mexico and the U.S., are Americans with as little as $150 a month, who have worked out a comfortable design for living in such modest places as Chapala and Ajijic...