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...Chevy is better than the model of ten years ago. It weighs 324 lbs. more, is almost a foot longer and five inches wider. Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney interrupted: "You say it is a better car because it is longer, wider and heavier. Have you received any complaints from people who believe these things are disadvantages? Do you think the modern car is too big?" "No, I don't," Curtice replied, added that he is just providing the public what the public wants. "Cars have attained their present dimensions as the result of popular...
...ring-shaped aluminum vacuum chamber with a 39-in. bore. The two vertical doughnuts linked into it are the iron cores of a transformer. When a small amount of deuterium gas is fed into the evacuated torus and a heavy electric current is shot through the transformer, an even heavier current (this is how transformers work) flows in a circle through the deuterium...
...June, stock-market credit affected by margin requirements has declined steadily, at latest report stood at only $5,218,000,000, the lowest point in three years and less than 3% of listed stock values on all registered exchanges. But the margin cut may make the market broader, bring heavier trading, help eliminate the thin markets that have caused stocks to gyrate wildly on a comparatively few shares. It should also prepare the market for a healthy rise should business suddenly change for the better...
Unexciting & Shallow. The longer the student must work, the heavier will be his financial burden, and the more apt he will be to drop out of graduate school before finishing his requirements. But even if his money holds out, say the deans, "what surety does he have about the kind of training he will meet? . . . Here too much is obscure, and too often the assignment of routine courses replaces careful faculty consideration. Too much is mechanical; too little is personal. It is easier to tell a man to take the traditional courses-unexciting, shallow, and often repetitious survey courses-than...
Whether the Treasury makes it or not, many economists agree that it is high time for the U.S. to realign its thinking about the $275 billion ceiling since fiscal 1959 may bring even more serious debt management problems with heavier defense outlays in prospect (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The main value of the $275 billion figure has been to act as a psychological drag on Government spending. Originally set in 1946, when the debt was $269 billion, the ceiling was low enough to remind the U.S. of the need for economy, but high enough to give the Treasury leeway...