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...race, the exquisitely tooled Maserati was winner by two laps. In twelve hours of relatively easy driving, the winner had covered a record 1,024.4 miles. Second: a lighter (2.9 liters) Maserati driven by England's Stirling Moss and American Expatriate Harry Schell. The D-Jag was third. Index of Performance prize for the car that exceeds theoretical standards by the largest amount went to a perky, eighth-place, 1.5-liter Porsche Spyder...
...survey was based on the 1952-53 school year. Estimates for 1957 took into account the cost-of-living index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and also the rise in tuition, fees and other college costs. Average tuition and fees at public college in 1952-53 totaled about $175 and at private institutions about...
...Mark. What really happened in 1952-55, reported Dale, after prowling through Government statistics, was that rising prices of non-goods-accounting for one-third of the average family's expenditures-balanced declines of other prices. And what happened in 1956, when the cost-of-living index zipped up a worrisome 3%, was that non-goods prices kept on rising, while prices of food and manufactured goods reversed their downward trend and inched upward...
...anticlimax: the Premier called in the leaders of the dairy bloc and promised an eventual rise in milk prices, if they would not demand one now. Mollet had special reason to worry about milk; it is one of the 213 items on France's official cost-of-living index. For weeks the index has hovered around 149. The day it hits 149.1, legal minimum wages all over France will jump 5%, triggering eventual pay increases for about twelve million French workers...
Tennis Balls & Stewpots. In the past year France's high cost of living has gone up an estimated 8.5%. Every Frenchman feels the pinch of inflation, but the index does not show it because of Finance Minister Paul Ramadier's artful policy of "dipping the thermometer in cold water." The index is based on the Paris price of 213 commodities which include tennis balls, long underwear and iron stewpots, but do not include gasoline or green vegetables (up 33% in the past year). Seventeen times in the past ten months, as the index trembled toward 149.1, white-goateed...