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...military dominates the Revolutionary Committees that rule at the province and district level. Army officers occupy deputy posts in several of Peking's ministries and hold eleven seats on the ruling 21-man Politburo. The fastest-rising man in China is Army Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng (TIME, Aug. 24), who now ranks fifth on official lists. Some radicals, by contrast, have fallen from power, particularly those who gathered around Mao's wife Chiang Ching. Among those conspicuously absent from the National Day parade: Politburo Members Hsieh Fu-chih and Chen Pota, both powerful proponents...
Last year the McManama-Hynes combination collected 140 points for the freshmen. "Hynes has one of the fastest wrist shots I've seen, and McManama is a slick playmaker," Cleary said last year...
...unemployment was supposed to be a tapering of inflation. That looked reasonable in August, when retail prices rose at an annual rate of only 2.4%. Last week, however, the Government reported that consumer prices in September jumped at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6%-almost equal to the fastest pace last winter. The rise, combined with a shrinkage in the average working week, ended a four-month increase in workers' purchasing power. Weekly spendable earnings, measured in 1957-59 dollars, dropped 83? in September...
Food was the fastest riser in September's index. The second largest jump occurred in women's apparel, partly because, in addition to its other disadvantages, the midi is expensive. Presidential Economic Adviser Paul McCracken took some comfort in reporting that the rate of rise in the consumer price index has declined slightly quarter to quarter, despite the September increase. On the other hand, the more comprehensive price index, the so-called G.N.P. deflator, rose from the second quarter to the third quarter...
McCurdy had expected his team to start more cautiously yesterday, but the Crimson jumped off quickly and turned in the fastest mile splits since the Cornell meet two weeks...