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...Japanese sent thousands of their sons to war after Pearl Harbor, and they won a proud record. Bolstered by a high literacy rate, steady solvency (U.S. tax revenues for fiscal 1958: $166 million), a dedicated interest in government (average turnout at the polls: 90% v. 60% mainland presidential peak), the fabled land of polysyllabic kings, brown-skinned women and languorous beauty-supercharged with its brilliant mosaic of cultures-has now opened the door on a new epoch for itself...
Delany has given peak performances every week. After a long season of running, he should not have to produce any excuse for withdrawing. Besides, he is an amateur, by any definition of the word an amateur cannot be required to compete against his will...
Like Pioneer IV, Wall Street's bull sped into uncharted territory last week. As trading on the New York Stock Exchange boiled up between 3,900,000 and 4,800,000 shares daily, Dow-Jones industrials hit a peak of 611.87, or 175 points above the 436.89 low of a year ago. Not even tough news could jolt it. The index gave up only 2.35 points on the Federal Reserve Board's discount-rate hike (see above), closed...
...dive, rising Crimson sophomore Eric Johnson, whose excellent show in the Yale meet provided the only varsity first place, will go against a host of equal calibre divers from the eight other schools. Johnson, the varsity's second diver at the season's outset, has steadily improved to a peak in practice this week...
...year ago. The continuing production pickup pushed freight carloadings more than 6% above last year's level, the fifth straight weekly rise. Total industrial production in January moved up for the ninth straight month to 143% of the 1947-49 average, just four points below the all time peak of December 1956. Personal income was also up by $2.4 billion to a record $362.3 billion, and spurred buying. In mid-February, department stores rang up 8% more sales than last year...