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...first singles for the varsity will be Dale Junta. The big junior from California was the mainstay of last year's championship squad, and should win with little trouble today...
...varsity met the first team of approximately its own caliber when defeated Duke 7 to 2 and 8 to 1, and this match provided the outstanding individual performance of the trip. After Dale Junta had bowed to Duke's Lief Beck, 6-2, 4-6, 8-6, in the first day's play, Steve Gottlieb took over the top position to completely out manuever Beck for a handy 6-1, 6-2 win the following...
Wide of the Mark. What really happened in 1952-55, reported Dale, after prowling through Government statistics, was that rising prices of non-goods-accounting for one-third of the average family's expenditures-balanced declines of other prices. And what happened in 1956, when the cost-of-living index zipped up a worrisome 3%, was that non-goods prices kept on rising, while prices of food and manufactured goods reversed their downward trend and inched upward...
...business and big labor have been blaming each other for the rise in prices," writes Dale. "It appears that both are wide of the mark." Big unions do indeed push wages up, but the boosts have been just about canceled by rises in productivity brought about by use of more and better machines. Corporations do up their prices, but trade-ins and retail discounts partly make up for the list-price increases. As a result, actual retail prices of goods average about the same now as four years ago. Some items are up, e.g., new cars and toilet articles...
...output of the barber, the bartender, the cop, or the bureaucrat. Yet, in order to hold workers in a period of full employment, the service field has to. raise wages as industrial wages rise. And the result of higher wages without higher productivity is higher prices. "The trouble," concludes Dale, "is that our society, more than any other in all history, spends its money on non-things...