Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most spectacular jump toward the head of the table was made by Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, who bypassed 48 governors, 96 Senators and two men of Cabinet rank, to land just below the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. House Speaker Sam Rayburn will also eat higher up on the festive board this year, jumping over foreign ambassadors and widows of former Presidents, to sit, a Texas Democrat, just below former Presidents. Reason: the speaker of the House is second in succession to the presidency. Lower at the table this year: Harold E. Stassen, the President...
...Integrated Networks. By hanging right on to the coattails of the Eisenhower telecast with a 15-minute updating of the situation from Washington and Little Rock, NBC commanded higher ratings than the popular To Tell the Truth and Broken Arrow on the other networks. An hour later, CBS's news crew turned in the week's best TV roundup: a half-hour wrapping together of film clips of mob violence and barely dry shots of the arriving paratroopers and President Eisenhower's speech with a background summary by Walter Cronkite in Manhattan, on-the-spot interviewing...
...down. "Wages in the American economy do not readily drop in contracting industries" because of union strength. Moreover, Slichter argues, when general business threatens to contract and drop prices, antirecession measures are applied by Government before falling prices lose all the ground gained in the last boom, giving a higher jumping-off point for the next rise...
...Jacoby's side are such authorities as C. Canby Balderston, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. If people become convinced that the Government intends to make inflation permanent, he says, an "inflation psychology" will corrupt all decisionmaking. Businessmen will not fear overexpansion because higher profits will bail them out. The public will stop buying life insurance and fixed-income bonds and scramble to buy land, commodities and equities, bidding up prices. Says Balderston: "The infant ceases to creep. It learns to walk, then run and finally gallop over the brink of the precipice" and bring the bust "which...
Although not all competitors can go on to be presidents of Harvard, the United States, or toy-manufacturing concerns, there are those who have. To get the Class of '61 off to the right start in their pursuit of higher glory, the CRIMSON will provide appropriate liquid refreshment...