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...Eisenhower) to a serious recession (Texas' easy-money Democratic Congressman Wright Patman). Various economists and businessmen called it recession, rolling readjustment, healthy adjustment, mild cyclical adjustment, slowdown, shakedown downturn, downtrend, sidewise movement, plateau, leveling off, period of hesitation, soft period, temporary cyclical swing in long-term growth, polka-dot prosperity with the spots getting bigger...
Died. Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Admiral Lord Mountevans, 75, British Royal Navy hero, whose exploits dot the high seas from England to China, author of sea-adventure stories (Pirate's Doom); in Golaa, Norway. Evans commanded the famed destroyer Broke (in 1917), which torpedoed one German raider, rammed a second and vanquished its cutlass-armed boarding party in old-fashioned hand-to-hand combat...
...last week, with 30 million Americans sailing almost 6,000,000 boats of all kinds in the greatest boating boom of all time, Wall Street's customers-along with U.S. butchers, bakers and candlestick makers-had enough yachts to swamp Wall Street's navy and dot every U.S. shoreline from California to Maine. How did the boom grow and what is the U.S. boating industry, already awash with prosperity, doing to keep up with a market that will grow to $1.5 billion this year? See BUSINESS, Down...
...meaning of 'un-American'?"), Witness Watkins was "not accorded a fair opportunity to determine whether he was within his rights in refusing to answer." Conclusion: "His conviction is necessarily invalid under the Due Process Clause." With that ruling went a gratuitous warning to Congress: in the future dot all the i's and cross all the t's in spelling out committee jurisdiction and legislative purpose with "particularity...
...missed. The drive from Harvard Square to the air-conditioned Stratford Theatre at legal speeds takes just a little over three hours if one uses the new Massachusetts Turnpike and takes Exit 53 from the Wilbur Cross Parkway after New Haven. And the curtain always rises on the dot...