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...report on the country in the down-to-earth fashion in which he regularly covers the Ontario legislature. By last week, when Reporter Kinmond returned to Hong Kong, his first 25 small-picture stories in the Globe and Mail (which plans to run ten more) added up to the broadest, most fact-packed portrait of China to come out of the mainland since the Communists took over...
...over the past eleven years. Europeans remarked sagely that the Eisenhower Administration had found an ideal job for Harold Stassen-all talk and no action. But the slow recognition that this time the Russians might be serious* has made everyone suddenly cautious. The Russians had accepted, at least in broadest principle, Eisenhower's "open skies" inspection and offered for the first time to admit international observers to Russian territory to check on bomb testing. Last week Western governments found themselves re-examining a question they had not seriously considered for years: Does the West really want disarmament...
Last week a surprise nominee walked off with the honors. Virginia's budget-dogging Harry Flood Byrd quietly announced that his Senate Finance Committee would begin hearings on "the financial condition of the U.S." by mid-May, would carry out "one of the broadest investigations ever undertaken by Congress." Because the committee already has funds to begin, Byrd asked for no approval, needed none. But he could certainly have got it had he tried. To the Senate, which reveres Harry Byrd as a man who knows fiscal policy as well as he knows Virginia apples, his credentials were eminently...
Delivering the Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Macgowan said that students must be taught to feel as well as think," and that the theatre is a good way to attain this end. He stressed that "theatre in its broadest sense has the happy advantage of providing a wide cultural base...
Nevertheless, every real Wall Streeter knows that Standard & Poor's daily average, like the Dow-Jones, is only a sketchy cross section of the whole market and thus attempts merely to show the broadest changes in trading sentiment. On a weekly basis, Standard & Poor does publish a mammoth index of 480 stocks, but for hourly and daily operations, it is impractical to calculate, such a wide selection, thus statisticians limit themselves to what they hope is a small but representative sampling. As a result, the averages sometimes show a rise in the market, when the fact is that...