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...seventh month in a row, the U.S. cost of living crept upward, but the total February-to-September rise was less than 2%. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its index (1947-1949 = 100) reached 115.2 in mid-September. It stood at 113.4 m February, 115 in August. Between August and September food prices dropped a little, but the decline was more than offset by increased costs for clothing, housing, recreation, medical care, services...
...Frank Gillan. When the second torpedo hit and Perth keeled over, he was trapped far below decks. Only perfect presence of mind and the lucky chance that his Mae West was only half-inflated saved him. As the water rose in the sinking hull. Gillan calmly let himself float upward with it through the pitch-dark passages of the ship, the air in his life jacket buoying him gently, but not so much as to force him against the overhead, where he could not maneuver. After a few awful minutes, he drifted out of the Perth like a ghost from...
...held above his head, arms fully extended. In the press, the bar is held for two seconds at shoulder level, then smoothly raised the rest of the way. The snatch calls for hoisting the bar in one continuous motion. In the clean and jerk, the bar is moved upward from the shoulders by a sudden arm-stiffening motion...
...Inching upward for a fifth straight month, the Government's fever chart on living costs touched a record 114.7 in mid-July (base: 100 for average prices in years 1947-49). Reason: increased rents, some higher food prices (pork, poultry, eggs, fresh milk), higher costs of medical care and transportation. Result: 1?-an-hour wage raise for a million aircraft and automobile workers, whose pay is tied to the cost-of-living index...
...high jumping pit, Texas' towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Olympic Champion Walter ("Buddy") Davis, 22, sternly eyed a bar set at 6 ft. 11 ½ in.-half an inch above the world record. Twice he rushed the bar with seven-league strides, then floated his 210 Ibs. upward with unbelievable buoyancy. But each time the bar quivered, then fell. On his third and last try, Davis sailed over. The bar quivered, stayed put. For an instant he sprawled in the pit, then bounded back to his feet and flung sawdust for joy. The crowd pressed in while...