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...there largely abandoned politics to supervise sweeping Post Office reforms. To the public, modernization shows up in such improvements as red, white and blue mailboxes and trucks and trim new uniforms. To business experts it shows up more impressively in such innovations as administrative streamlining and cost accounting. Return ing for a new term. Summerfield must tackle a task he has failed at before: convincing Congress that rates should be upped (present thinking: 5? for all first-class mail) to put the red, white and blue Post Office on a pay-as-you-go basis...
...name colleges, mostly in the East, have really felt the first impact of the great tidal wave. Though the number of high-school students who go on to college has jumped from 15% in 1940 to 40%, the nation's 1,800 institutions of higher learn ing can still keep up with the demand. But what of the years immediately ahead? By the time the present crop of first-graders is ready for college, says Dean of Admissions Arthur Howe Jr. of Yale, en rollments may soar to between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000. What the favored...
...along by it. When the drift angle reaches a maximum, he turns downstream until the drift angle falls to zero. Then he knows that he is flying in the center of the jet stream. If the stream curves, as it often does, the airplane can follow it by keep ing the drift angle at zero. When the "66" is hooked to the autopilot, the airplane will follow the stream automatically, getting maximum benefit...
...INDUSTRIAL CITY will rise along Mississippi River 30 miles upstream from New Orleans. William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp is break ing ground for $120 million townsite for 4,000 families, expects to finish first houses by July. Another $200 million will be invested in new plants there by Olin Revere Metals, Dow Chemical Co., Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., Kaiser Aluminum Corp...
...TRUCKS will be built in Brazil for first time. Automaker will spend $10 million for enginebuild-ing and foundry equipment, as a start, will eventually turn out six-cylinder Chevrolet truck engines from new plant near Sao Paulo in 1958, Chevy-type trucks later. G.M. is trebling its automotive investment in G.M. do Brasil, which now makes truck cabs and refrigerators, assembles trucks, cars...