Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prewar Japan, such an act by a university student would have been unthinkable. Today student crimes have become one of Japan's major problems. Once limited to the well-to-do, higher education is now open to thousands of boys and girls who work their way through school. In addition to the 165 colleges and universities Japan had before the war, 335 new ones have sprung up. But what might have been an unmixed blessing has brought with it a curse. Last year 5,664 students were arrested for major crimes; of these, one in five came from...
...Good? Whatever happens to the cost of stereo tapes, the price of a stereo rig-inevitably including two amplifiers and two speakers-is always likely to be higher than that of a conventional monaural setup. A stereo rig can easily run into many hundreds of dollars, but for the less well-heeled tape fan, manufacturers are pushing portable models in the $200-$300 bracket...
CHEVROLET will be 5 in. longer, 3 in. lower (but still 1.5 in. higher than Chrysler's 1957 Plymouth), will get a new body and frame, a smoother-riding rear suspension and a bigger engine. One big styling change: new heavy tail fins, which jut out at a 45° angle...
Chrysler & Ford. Chrysler, which made its big change last year and won back a 20% share of the market, will only freshen its fins, wait until 1960 for a major styling change, figuring that 1957's radical styling changes will keep it right up with the pack. Beyond higher horsepower, revised grilles and molding sweeps, all models from Plymouth through Imperial will be virtually unchanged, allowing the company to concentrate on higher production, better distribution and quality control to eliminate the one serious complaint of 1957: lack of structural rigidity, which engineers hope to solve by strengthening the frame...
DOWNING B. JENKS, president, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co.: "A 3% or 4% increase in carloadings and the possibility of an increase in freight rates should enable the railroads to overcome, to a large extent, the burden of higher wages and material costs, thus ending up the year about as well...