Word: highe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chance to Break In. In Djakarta, Indonesia, Police Inspector M. Husin complained to the city government that Chinese convicted of minor offenses were paying substitutes high wages to serve their jail sentences for them...
Smash Hit. In Bathurst, Australia, when the touring Vienna Choir Boys struck a high soprano note while singing in the Civic Theater, the ceiling cracked, causing mortar and bricks to -crash on the stage...
...cuts (the $50 million college-classroom program, a spread-out in the spending of $650 million urban renewal funds), but retained some of the Ike-disliked features (a $50 million program to build homes for the elderly, extra public-housing starts) in a $1 billion bill that is still high ($200 million above budget) but less than half its original Democratic size...
...finance the fund-short, 41,000-mile highway program. Result: the gas tax goes to 4? Oct 1. ¶Rejected again the Administration demand for abolition of interest-rate limits on Government bonds, thus left Treasury unable to manage the $290 billion public debt effectively in today's high, changing money market (see BUSINESS). In a minor concession, a House-Senate conference boosted the 3.26% ceiling on popular E and H savings bonds to 4.25%, thus permitting Treasury to credit outstanding savings bonds with 3.75% interest retroactive to June...
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Russia's Next Rulers gives a rundown on the Soviet's future elite, the students at Moscow's State University...