Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Obstetrician Albert L. Higdon of Teaneck, N.J. Before a Canadian meeting of obstetricians and gynecologists, he reported that studies of 21,000 mothers indicate that childbirth presents only slightly greater risks to a woman of 40 than to one of 20. The older women bore only a slightly higher percentage of Mongoloid children, suffered no more difficult deliveries, had an average mortality rate...
...year. At that rate, it will take them ten years to save enough for one year of college for one child-at current costs, and last year alone costs jumped 9.5%. Concludes Ford Foundation Vice President Clarence Faust: "American parents apparently need to know more about the economics of higher education...
...football's most unfulfilled and peripatetic careers (three high schools, two colleges, four pro teams), which had largely been botched by the boisterous stage-mothering of stepfather Harvey Knox. "Football is a game for animals," said Ronnie. "I like to think I'm above that." Dreaming of higher things, Ronnie allowed he might toss off a novel or some poetry, already had some lines at hand that lurched with the proper beatnik beat...
...financing in the inflationary short end. Between now and Jan. 1, the Treasury has to refinance almost $12 billion in old debt and borrow $7 billion in new cash. So much money borrowed in the short end has created a strong pressure to shove all interest rates higher. The process is already operating. Last week, as the 91-day bill rate went up to nearly 4.2% from 3.979% on the sale a week before, it easily jumped over the new 4% discount rate set by the Federal Reserve to stop banks from taking advantage of the lower discount rate...
...President's hope is that the public will soon see that Congress did it no favor in trying to keep interest rates under the 4¼% ceiling, which now has turned out to be no ceiling at all but rather a prime cause of higher interest rates. Once the public is educated to that fact, said Ike. "Congress will feel the heat of truth about this matter and do something." At week's end the public was about to be educated. In Washington, the Federal Housing Administration prepared to raise the home mortgage rate from...