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...technological progress has outstripped the growth of the economy and has made ineffective the classical" techniques for dampening the fluctuations of the business cycle. "Now in 1962, despite a 25 per cent increase in military expenditure, the number of unemployed again exceeds the number unemployed at the last recovery peak...
...Montgomery Ward's in Kansas City, and the picture was much the same in other department stores around the country. Consumer installment credit, up $2 billion for the year, swelled to a record total of $45 billion in July and helped lift retail sales to a new peak of $19.7 billion...
...elderly man's cholesterol hit its peak for his entire hospital stay when another patient called him a dirty name and threatened to start a fight. Another's hit a similar peak in a row over a card game...
Sharing the Glory. In peak form for last week's A.A.U. championships, Carolyn had to share her glory with another Los Angeles teenager: her best friend, 16-year-old Sharon Finneran, who broke the listed world records in the 200-meter butterfly (2 min. 31.2 sec.) and the 400-meter individual medley (5 min. 25.4 sec.). A swimming nomad, Sharon was born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., started swimming competitively in Florida, moved with her schoolteacher mother to Los Angeles last year to work with Carolyn and Coach Daland. The girls live only six blocks apart, and both attend John...
...moviegoers, starting out in 1910 as a $20-a-week stunt man and going on to become one of horse opera's Big Five (the others: Torn Mix, William S. Hart, Harry Carey, Buck Jones) in the 1920s and '30s, earning $14,500 a week at the peak of his career, and letting it slip through his fingers like quicksilver until in his last years he was almost broke; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...