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Detroit's decline has been going on for a long while. Auto production soared to an alltime peak in 1955-but there were already worrisome signs. In the face of growing foreign and domestic competition, auto companies merged, or quit, or moved out of town to get closer to markets. Automation began replacing workers in the plants that remained. In the past seven years, Chrysler, the city's biggest employer, has dropped from 130,000 to 50,000 workers. At the depth of the 1958 recession, when Detroit really began reeling. 20% of the city's work...
...defense, Memphis State's burly linemen (average weight: 222 Ibs.) gang-tackled viciously: every pile-up seemed to be covered by flocks of blue-and-grey jerseys. On offense, Memphis State was far from peak form, but still had more than enough power to brush aside sturdy Abilene Christian whenever it counted. Coach Billy Jack Murphy cleared his 38-player bench in a merciful attempt to keep the score down, but even that tactic failed: the unbeaten Tigers rolled up 379 yds. and romped to an easy 35-0 victory...
...towering citadel of Sardis, the Harvard-Cornell team found that a deep gorge, which once cleaved the peak, had been filled with rock and refuse swept from fallen buildings. Some of the pottery pieces found in the gorge are identical with crockery of the Phyrgians. According to ancient traditions, the Phyrgians were once overlords over the Lydians, and the new findings help to confirm this...
...whole mess more in sorrow than in anger." In part, the Army's troubles stem from the Eisenhower Administration's "new look" decision to get a bigger bang for a buck by curtailing the weapons of conventional war and concentrating on the massive nuclear deterrent. From a peak strength of 1,668,579 men and a budget of $21.6 billion during the Korean war, the Army slumped in peacetime to 856,000 men and $9.5 billion...
Labor's escape from the wilderness coincides with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's steady decline from his 1959 popularity peak, when prosperity, his confrontation with Khrushchev, and a top London advertising agency all burnished the image of "MacWonder." At their lowest ebb since the election ("this valley of sluggishness," Gaitskell called it), the Conservatives are trailing five full points behind Labor's Gallup-estimated hold on 37-5% of the population. Few expect a general election much before the government's term runs out in 1964. But Hugh Gaitskell, as his foes ruefully testify...