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Suddenly the awful yellow of the caution lights flared around the track. Drivers slowed down, forbidden to pass each other until the danger was past. Black fumes, more ominous than any thunderhead, eased upward over the backstretch. The racket of racing engines sounded loud against the tense and quiet crowd. Reason for the yellow lights: a four-car pile-up that had jammed the track ahead of Wild Bill Vukovich. All the luck in the world was not enough to bypass disaster. Vuky never had a chance. His Hopkins Special plowed into the tangled wreckage at 150 m.p.h., bounced into...
...Financial Times broke through 200, climbed a record 5.8 points to a new peak of 204.4 before it eased off. In one day, market-leading Imperial Chemical Industries rose 1½? to $7.70, Courtaulds climbed 45½? to $6.30. Steels, machine tools, electrical equipment companies all headed upward. Not only were Britons busily buying, but Americans also gave the market a boost as they snapped up stocks. On the American Stock Exchange, I.C.I, was one of the most heavily traded stocks last week...
...boom was due to the Conservative Party victory and the prospect of more encouragement of private enterpirise. Actually, the London market had anticipated the election's outcome, had begun to move upward (from about 183) three weeks before the nation went to the polls. What surprised both Britons and Americans was that the market kept rising in the face of a paralyzing national railway strike (see FOREIGN NEWS). Most financial and political experts, trying to explain this paradox, calculated that one big factor was an end to Labor's threat to renationalize steel and long-distance trucking, nationalize...
Does Welles-playing Othello, of course-stride on screen to erupt a Shakespearean torrent? Depend on it, the camera will be angled upward from the floor so that Welles looms at least ten feet high while the other actors seem scarcely more than midgets...
Refueling the Gas. The upward trend is noticeable all across the nation. Governors of twelve states proposed new taxes this year, and the governors of 29 called for increases in present levies. In New York, personal income taxes were in creased 11% by Democratic Governor Averell Harriman's administration. In Iowa, under Republican Governor Leo Hoegh, the legislature adopted a whole range of tax increases (in sales, use, in come and gasoline levies), adding up to an 8% boost. Nevada became the 32nd state to levy a general sales and use tax (2%); Washington pushed its state sales...