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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tell-tale Pattern. The waves from earlier U.S. and Soviet tests followed this pattern. But during this summer's tests, Japan's microbarographs showed a difference. With each explosion (the U.S. has announced only one), the initial, shortwave phase decreased, indicating that the bombs were being exploded higher and higher in the atmosphere. On July 3, the Japanese picked up a wave pattern" that had almost no short waves. Ito thinks this proves that the explosion took place above 22 miles. If it did, Ito reasons, the bomb must have been carried by a rocket. No existing bomber...
...eleven years dean of the School of Education. A Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Melby rose from small-town teacher and school superintendent to be dean of Northwestern University's School of Education, president of Montana's State University, and finally, chancellor of Montana's higher educational system. But it was not until he got to N.Y.U. that he came into his own as a kind of senior defense counsel for the U.S. public school against those who insisted that it had sacrificed its intellectual content. He set up N.Y.U.'s Center for Human Relations...
...first duty of the press to print the news at any price, no matter what the injury? Or should newspapers, in compelling circumstances, acknowledge a higher duty by holding up a story? Last week the New York dailies, though most of them sided instinctively with humanity, failed their severest test...
...York Times one day last week. It was the understatement of the week. With 650,000 steelworkers on strike and 90% of the industry shut down, there seemed little cheer for Wall Street's traders; yet they scrambled to buy. Along with steels, oil and aircraft stocks pushed higher, and the 1956 bull market went up on three of the four trading days. By week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average stood at 504.14. The rise of 11.36 points in the week put the market at the highest level since early May and well within striking distance...
POTATO SHORTAGE is sending prices to highest level in 40 years. On Chicago market, California red potatoes currently bring $10 to $10.50 per 100 lbs., up $4 since May and $7 higher than year ago at this time; Maine potato futures last week hit new high for this year...