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...times, British statesmen, like British mountaineers, seem driven to climb the summit for no better reason than because it's there. This thought struck Germany's Chancellor Adenauer last week as Prime Minister Macmillan, fresh from leading the U.N. Assembly battle against a rampageous Nikita Khrushchev, briskly informed Britain's Tories: "We must try to get back to the mood of last spring. Negotiations on Berlin and Germany must be resumed...
...great wind, says a survivor, came "waves as big as mountains, roaring like a thousand thunderclaps." Huts were washed away "like weeds." In a pathetic attempt to keep from being swept away, people clasped hands to form circles, with their children in the middle. There were few trees to climb to precarious safety; most trees had long ago been chopped by villagers for fuel...
...Detroit, retail sales in October are running 4% ahead of last year. Sales of New England retail stores were up 1% from last year in the four weeks ended Oct. 8. Retail sales in Southern California have stopped a steady climb that began early in 1958, and are running about the same as last year, which represents an actual slippage in the face of California's steadily growing population. In the Federal Reserve district covering Texas and parts of Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana and New Mexico, department-store sales for the four weeks ending Oct. 15 are down 7% from...
...third quarter over the same period in 1959, lifted per-share earnings for the nine months to $6.51 v. $5.57 last year. Aided by 70% load factors on its new jets, which now carry 56% of United's passengers, United Air Lines made a steep climb; President William A. ("Pat") Patterson announced record third-quarter earnings of $1.97 per share, up from $1.74 a year ago. Ford, riding the compact crest, announced an extra quarterly dividend...
...Vermont's farm-bred Congressman Justin Smith Morrill looked about him and saw an ill-trained nation speeding toward "decay and degradation." His bold proposal: launch land-grant colleges in every state to educate farmers, mechanics and "those at the bottom of the ladder who want to climb up." On a tense day in July 1862-as McClellan frittered away the Union Army at Malvern Hill-Lincoln signed the Morrill Act that gave 17.4 million acres to "people's colleges." So began the biggest effort in the history of man to hand higher education to anyone who wanted...