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...direct action to cool the speculative fervor. E. F. Hutton & Co. announced that it will forbid its salesmen to solicit orders to buy stocks selling for less than $5 a share and will allow them no commission on such orders. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest securities concern, said it plans to increase restrictions on margin accounts...
SINCE the "Fortune 500," which ranks the nation's largest companies according to sales, first appeared in 1954, corporations on the list have moved up, down, on and off faster than naughty debutantes move out of or back into the bluebook. Last week FORTUNE published its 14th annual 500, and, with the urge to merge rampant everywhere, the ranks were more scrambled than ever...
...light of the spirit of the declaration, there was some surprise that the messengers elected a conservative as incoming president. He is Dr. W. A. Criswell, 60, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation. Although long regarded as a segregationist by other Baptist leaders, Criswell insisted that his 15,000-member congregation includes three Negroes. There is no disputing, however, the conservatism of his theology. Criswell is strongly opposed to the teaching of evolution in public schools, believes that Genesis provides a literally accurate account of the world's beginning...
...majority of the Harvard community has probably never met or even heard of the man all the hoopla was about. The Fogg Art Museum and the Fine Arts Department it houses are, after all, neither the largest nor most controversial segments of the University. Coolidge himself has said that the Fogg has never been dominated by one man, and he has been no exception to the rule. But the Fogg has been transformed, substantially if quietly, in directions Coolidge is largely responsible for during his 20 year reign...
Ford says he prefers special committees to be fairly small, that is, between seven and nine members. The largest committee now going has "something like 15" members, he says. Large committees have a difficulty rounding up their members for meetings...