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...officials have discounted such reports, though the State Department conceded last week that the newest Syrian Cabinet was more leftish than State anticipated. Syria was the most outspoken Arab country in acclaiming Soviet "intervention"' at the time of last November's Middle East ceasefire. When the Russians intervened with murder and treachery in Hungary, Syrian newspapers printed nothing but Tass accounts of what went on in Budapest. Last week's Cabinet change reflected a coming into the open, if not coming fully to power, of the pro-Soviet and pro-Nasser clique headed by the Syrian army...
...newest and handsomest fellowships in the arts and architecture field were announced last week in Chicago by the $5,000,000 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Aim of the new foundation, which draws its funds from the estate of bigtime Chicago Builder Ernest Robert Graham, who died in 1936,* is to give artists, architects and critics of already proved ability a year off to work on special projects of their own choosing...
...first time last week, the Atomic Energy Commission disclosed the full size and scope of one of the nation's newest and most vital industries. In a few brief years the mining and processing of uranium has grown from a midget industry into a giant, with an output worth more than $100 million a year. In 1956 alone, the AEC's figures revealed, the industry processed 3,000,000 tons of raw ore into 6,000 tons of uranium concentrate (one ton of concentrate contains 11 Ibs. of U-235, the reactor fuel...
...interest Veterans Administration and FHA-insured mortgages has dried up. Housing starts with VA and FHA mortgages have plummeted 30% to 467,400 units v. only a 1% drop for homes without Government-guaranteed mortgages. Last week the big argument was over the U.S. Government's newest move to help builders by hiking the interest rate on FHA-insured mortgages by ½% to a maximum of 5% (TIME...
...Paris' National Museum of Modern Art last week the competition for the newest and biggest prize in art reached the finals. Nineteen national and international juries had selected 95 works from 19 countries to vie for the $10,000 grand prize, established this year by Manhattan's multimillion-dollar Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, whose new $3,000,000, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum is now going up on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue...