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...National Citizens' Committee to Curb Inflation, born in Mexico, Mo. (pop. 13,500) three months ago, marched into Washington for a rally last week, and it could hardly have picked a fitter time. Reason: last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its retail price index had crept upward for the ninth month in a row, hitting a record peak of 119.6 (the 1947-49 average = 100) as compared with 115.4 a Year...
While the President was amazed at the intricacy and microsecond timing of carrier operations (he said, "Saratoga looks good. We know, just as you do, that she is good."), one somber note crept into the good sailing he had enjoyed. Three Navy fighter planes from Cecil Field, Fla. crashed on routine operations in the vicinity of Sara, and operations were suspended or altered to search out the pilots, reducing the presidential task force from 19 to three ships. Two pilots were saved, one lost, and Ike, deeply disturbed, sent .his sympathy to the next...
...price of clothing went down a bit, but just about everything else, from food to laundry soap, went up. And so that restless thermometer of inflation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' retail price index, crept higher again in April. It was the eighth monthly rise in a row, bringing the index to a record high of 119.3 (the 1947-49 average = 100). The new mark was .4 above the March figure and a notable 4.7 above early 1956, when the index, after three steady years, started edging upward. Forecast for May: higher...
Like Dante's Inferno, Communism has its different levels of horror and misery. At the bottom of the pit, by almost any measure, lies Albania. Last week a Cabinet minister of Albania's still strongly Stalinist government, Major General Panajot Plaku, fled his rugged country, at night crept along mountain paths he had known as a partisan in World War II, and crossed into Yugoslavia. Plaku is the most important ranking Communist among the 5,000 to 6,000 Albanians who have fled his benighted country since...
Creeping liberalism crept a little further here last night when the Freshman Union Committee endorsed the wearing of Bermuda shorts in the Harvard Union by an 11 to 4 vote...