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...Milestone Plantation was also the turning point-upward. The President still had his share of troubles, including "the most hurtful, the hardest, the most heartbreaking'' decision of all: asking the resignation of his staff chief, Sherman Adams, who had accepted hotel hospitality and gifts, including a vicuña coat, from finagling Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. But in much more important areas, he returned from Milestone Plantation ready, as he had not been since his heart attack, to follow the creed of Theodore Roosevelt: "Here is the task. I have...
...Wings." Aluminum hydrofoils that lift pleasure craft from the water by creating an upward pressure at speeds of ten knots or higher were introduced by Reynolds Metals Co. and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. The wings, which come in a do-it-yourself kit, increase a boat's speed up to 30%, cut fuel consumption, make for smoother riding. Price: $390 a pair...
...crop ever. Detroit proudly unveiled its sporty 1960 automobile crop, and giant commercial jets were becoming so commonplace that the average man no longer turned his face up to look at them when they cast their falcon shadows over the land. Factories hummed, production figures zoomed, the economy rocketed upward toward the stratosphere...
Rocky was only 17 in 1951 when he started riding the buses with Daytona Beach in the Class D Florida State League. After that the road led only upward: Spartanburg (11 homers), Reading (28), two years in Indianapolis (38, 30). In 1956, after a one-month stint with San Diego, Rocky made the Indians for good, as a rookie hit a respectable .276, knocked out 21 home runs...
What all this means, said the Chicago Federal Reserve, is that the current price stability may not continue. Drawing a parallel to the 1955 recovery, when prices held steady, the bank suggests that prices may follow a similar pattern in the second half, then show a broad upward movement in 1960, as prices...