Word: higher
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...adjudged it "a majestic measure of humanity." Last week Congress also: ¶Passed. 409 to 1 in the House, unanimously in the Senate (and President Eisenhower signed), a new 8% postal pay-raise bill which corrects many of the "inequities" cited by the President in his veto of a higher, 8.8% bill (TIME, May 30). Annual cost: $164 million...
...gallons of water per ton of steel v. the industry average of 65,000 gallons per ton. Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point (Md.) plant found a cheap water supply in the treated effluence of Baltimore's municipal sewage. Though the initial equipment cost is higher, some companies are shifting to salt water for cooling...
Rear Admiral Boone rejoined by saying he would lift the ban with a "cheerful naval aye, aye" if directed by a higher authority. But no such authority exerted itself, and the ban remained. West Point informed the public that it would allow no debate on "a controversial subject on which . . . national policy has already been established." It then went ahead to argue the advisability of agricultural subsidies, which the government has approved for over a hundred years. And the Naval Academy maintained that anyone arguing for recognition of Peking was upholding "the Communist Philosophy and party line" at the same...
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...discussion of Catholic teachings on the subject of conscience and the individual, Monsignor Francis J. Lally. editor of the Pilot, official newspaper of the Boston archdiocese, emphasized the pre-eminence of moral law over statutory law. "There is a higher law than the law of the land. We must put moral law above the law of the land; conscience must always receive the first choice...