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...experiment, he sat down beneath a Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya in northeastern India and determined not to move until he had plumbed the secret of existence. After 49 days it came-what Buddhists call The Enlightenment. "I knew," said Buddha, " 'rebirth' has been destroyed, the higher life has been led; what had to be done has been done. I have no more to do with this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buddha's 2,500th | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...produce graduates with at least an elementary knowledge of how to write. Said Rhetoric 100's Professor Charles W. Roberts: "Laboring to get 18-year-old men and women to tell the difference between 'their' and 'there' is not the proper business of higher education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

CANNED VEGETABLES are going up. Canners and freezers currently negotiating contracts for their 1956 pack report paying up to 35% more for tomatoes, from 10% to 15% more for celery, spinach and cauliflower plus higher costs for tin cans, wages and freight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...FARES will get their first overall investigation from CAB. Under congressional pressure, CAB will check to see if fares it okayed for 13 domestic trunk lines are too high. A better target for CAB: international air fares, which in some cases are more than 200% higher than domestic routes over comparable distances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...either committed itself to or was considering. The total came to 1,000,000 tons annually for the next ten years, with a total capacity for U.S. Steel of nearly 50 million tons by 1966. The cost will be $5 billion, and to finance it; U.S. Steel must have higher prices. Said Big Steel's Blough: ''Our profits, at their present level, could neither support nor finance the heavy capital expenditures that we must make." Blough's statement poured added fuel on a hot debate blazing through U.S. industry: Should steel prices go up this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL PRICES: How Big a Rise? | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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