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Acid in the Pool. In the showdown, 46 Democrats voted for the bill, while 21 voted against it. Twenty-seven Republicans voted aye, while only six said no. In addition to Barry Goldwater (see following story), the dissident Republicans were New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, New Mexico's Edwin Mechem, Wyoming's Milward Simpson and Texas' John Tower...
...took 1¾ hours to put out the fires and clear away the debris. And then, Indy being Indy, the race began again. Fans had expected a showdown between the new-fangled rear-engined Fords and the front-engined Offies that had dominated Indy for years. For a while, it looked as if they would get it. Clark again jumped into the lead, but he was quickly passed by Bobby Marshman in another Lotus-Ford. After 39 laps, Marshman was 27 sec. in front of Clark; both were averaging more than 150 m.p.h., smashing Indy's old speed record...
...thud. In the classic business "cycle" of ups and downs (see chart), even the post-World War II boom has been interrupted by four disturbing recessions, though they have been growing briefer and shallower. But the current recovery has shown unprecedented staying power, having survived the steel price showdown, a stock market slump, the Cuban missile crisis and the Kennedy assassination. Already it ranks as the best peacetime expansion in history-and there is no end in sight...
...thug--the change makes him much more frightening. Unfortunately, the fellow selected to play Grant fails to capitalize on his good fortune, and so what could have been a near-monumental struggle between two men of Bond's stamp comes off as the usual cool hero versus ranting villain showdown. (The actual fight outdoes that famous karate scene in Manchurian Candidate for sheer brutality...
...Harvard goes into Tuesday's showdown game at Dartmouth with a chance to clinch its first league championship since 1957. Furthermore, wins over Dartmouth and Yale would make Harvard one of only three teams's in the League's 35-year history to go through an entire season unbeaten...