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Just as the bullfight affords ordered release for the latent ferocity of Spain, bicycle racing brings Gallic veto worship to near ecstasy each spring and summer. It reaches its peak with the Tour de France...
...Mediterranean Bali Ha'i far off the beaten tourist track. Since then, thanks to cut-rate package vacations and a climate even kindlier than Spain's Costa Brava, the island has become a kind of Costa Coney (436,000 visitors last year), where the local patois in peak season is more Cockney than Catalan...
...their great (but exaggerated) profit expectations. Transitron, which made its debut last year and quickly scaled to 60. is now down to 24 because 1960's black ink has turned to red. Pale profits in vending machines have sent Vendo down more than 50% from March's peak of 77¼, while the earnings pinch has also clipped Polaroid, Fairchild Camera, Bell & Howell and Universal Match...
Some of the growth spectaculars had run into competition. The transistor field has become crowded, and price cutting is rampant-with the result that early starting Texas Instruments is off more than 100 from its May 1960 peak of 256¼, while Thompson Ramo-Wooldridge has slumped from last February's 82⅜ to 57. FarringtonManu-facturing.whichclimbed to 57 on the merits of its optical scanner, is down to 13 now that competitors have similar machines. By contrast, companies that are well diversified or solidly backlogged with defense contracts are holding up well. Litton Industries is close to its historic...
...bunch of young women in search of a Harvard education. In recent years, College officials talked eloquently about the obligation to expand. Stopping their ears to anguished complaints from the undergraduates, they converted singles into doubles with the purchase of several double-decker "bunk beds." Overcrowding reached its peak a year ago, with one dorm housing more than double the number of students it had been designed...