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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungarian refugees authorized to enter the U.S. in 1956 were arriving last week, the Immigration and Naturalization Service reported that 1956 immigration topped 350,000-the highest total of any year since 1924. At the White House, President Eisenhower considered legislation to permit the 1957 total to soar even higher. He also ordered Attorney General Herbert Brownell to continue to admit unspecified numbers of Hungarian refugees under the "parole" provision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration law "until such time as the Congress acts...
...spare enough time from his official duties to become a spectacularly successful businessman as well. With Magloire in Jamaican exile (TIME, Dec. 24), Haitians last week were learning for the first time the full extent of his success. Estimates of the take ran from $12 million to figures higher than the country's 1956-57 budget of $28 million. Last week Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis, Magloire's temporary successor, slapped all Magloire's assets into trusteeship and started an inquiry into the President's riches...
Overshadowed Humans. Neanderthal man was certainly free of one modern worry: his humble weapons and tools did not threaten to dominate his life. Modern man sees the machines that he has created move into higher and higher positions of influence. They already do most of the work of the industrial world, and they are beginning to do a good part of its thinking. Many scientists are alarmed by their rapid march to power...
With the growing demand for higher education and the resulting need for more teachers, the liberal-arts graduate school should beware of two tempting solutions: the lowering of standards and haphazard expansion. Last week, in his first report as dean of the Graduate Faculties of Columbia University, Historian Jacques Barzun warned: "As the highest institution of learning, the graduate school suddenly finds that it may soon become the last dike in the flood. Elsewhere, the diluting of quality may do limited or temporary harm. Not at the top. Somewhere the idea of scholarship must be kept unimpaired. Clearly, the graduate...
RAIL INCOME SLUMP is stoking up demand for another freight rate hike. Despite rise in carloadings in 1956, higher costs trimmed net income of nation's Class 1 rails to $875 million, off $52 million from 1955. Eastern railways may ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for 15% rate boost on top of recent 7% emergency hike, Western railways for 17% raise in addition to recent 5% increase...