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...unsold compacts in showrooms and on snow-packed car lots. The cost of living edged upward by one-tenth of 1% in December, bringing it to a record high. The stock market was strong but erratic: rails drooped badly even while American Telephone & Telegraph shares reached an alltime peak...
...groups. Dr. Sabin won a grudging endorsement: "The PHS should continue to make every effort to encourage the early production and ready availability of an oral polio vaccine." Best estimates were that it would not be ready much before next winter-too late to take effect in the peak polio months...
Sated with the sycophancy of the Times and the News, Ghanaians have turned in droves to the unsubsidized Graphic. Last year alone, Times circulation dwindled from 20,000 to 10,000; the News, which hit a peak of 25,000 in 1958, is now down to only 4,000. In contrast, Graphic circulation is climbing steadily, now stands at 88,522. The Graphic typically carries eight times as much advertising as the Times, nearly 70 times as much as the News...
...that fails, he pronounces that phase of his life dead. The activism of Hemingway's generation, politically and otherwise, and its habit of first embracing and then abandoning a person, a party or a cause, were attempts to keep the intensity of sensation at a constant peak. Duc prides himself on the fact that he never "stays put" and that "pursuit" is the prime quality of "the art of living...
...peak hours, Nash observed, 100 to 120 buses enter the Square area. To dock at the station proposed in the plan, many of them would have to make awkward turns that would only complicate matters. Implementation of Sullivan's plan, he concluded, would merely "move the core of traffic congestion from Harvard Sq. proper further up into the Harvard Square bottleneck...