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...Jones industrial average faltered after a sustained rise that had sent it smashing through the magic 800 mark; in the sharpest daily decline since the assassination of President Kennedy, it dropped 6.77 points in one day. As the bears saw it, this was the start of the major shake-out they had been expecting all along: it was time to dig in for a slide to well below 800. But the market barely gave them a passing nod before it turned around and galloped up 18 points in only eight trading days. Last week it set a new record...
...Crimson posted second places in the mile run and the 100-yard dash. Captain Ed Meeban ran the first three fourths of his race in a speedy 3:07 but couldn't shake Phil Jutras, Boston College's premier middle distance man. Jurtas passed him in the final eighth of a mile and finished in 4:09.2, a new meet record...
...gosh," said Candy in real disquiet, unable despite her efforts to shake off all the old associations it had for her,...do we really have to?" And, almost in reflex, she drew her marvelous thighs a bit closer together...
...helicopter carrying Lyndon and Lady Bird dropped down outside a South Bend retraining school for unemployed workers. Thousands of children swarmed over the field, crushed in on the Johnsons. Secret Service men beckoned frantically for police reinforcements. Lyndon was stern, admonishing his admirers: "I'm not going to shake hands with you unless you behave yourselves." Several injured children were rushed away in ambulances...
Then the presidential motorcade headed across town. More than 150,000 people had lined up along the route. Johnson all but took flight in his exuberance. Again and again he ordered his car to stop so that he could climb out and shake hands. People surged into the street. The President's right hand began to bleed, but he kept on shaking. Once he snatched a bullhorn from a cop and bellowed to the delighted crowd, "The one good thing about America is that our ambitions are not too large! They boil down to food, shelter and clothing...