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Shouts of "Wellesley or bust" will again resound along the Worcester Turnpike Sunday when the Harvard Outing Club's cyclists renew their annual ten-and-one-half-mile mad dash toward Wellesley College and a welcoming committee of girls...
General Electric's Charles E. Wilson was inclined to feel the same way. There was no economic mandate, said he, for a bust to follow the current boom. "The reasons which underlie our inflation seem to have been more solid than we anticipated. ... It is difficult not to reach the conclusion, in the face of continued buying at high prices, that these prices are more strongly based, and the whole price structure less vulnerable, than was the case...
...also enjoyed one minor triumph over governmental red tape. A bronze bust of the President had been presented by Mexico's President Miguel Alemán to the University of Kansas City, where both received honorary degrees last spring. But because no evaluation had been made to customs officers (although no actual duty is required on art for exhibition), the 600-lb. statue had remained in the Kansas City customs office since last June, padded with 18 seat cushions from a Mexican bullfight ring. Last week a satisfactory price tag was finally attached and the statue released. The price...
...from J. M. Mehl, administrator of the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Exchange Authority. The Board of Trade's margin requirements, raised only the week before, were still too low, said Mehl. He asked that they be doubled in order to "lessen the danger of a boom-&-bust situation...
...tall (5 ft. 8½ in.), slim figure is still a fashionable model's size (35 in. bust, 26 waist, 36 hips). She keeps it that way by calisthenics, by often walking to work from her Manhattan house, by dieting and by plenty of golf, which she plays in the high 80s. (She wears a girdle, as thin as possible, only because she doesn't think it's "nice" to go ungirdled.) Her working dress is usually one of her own simple black $300 daytime dresses...