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Spain is still a dictatorship, but not so severely as it once was. It is more prosperous than it used to be-though still the poorest nation in Western Europe, outside its next-door neighbor Portugal, where a fellow dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, is Franco's only senior in office...
...spending more money in 1958 than ever before, but not on automobiles made in the U.S.A. The U.S.A. has got to a point where it makes the poorest cars in the world...
...varsity lacrosse team put on one of its poorest displays of the season last Saturday as it bowed to Cornell by a 7-1 score on the Business School field. "The attack has never played worse than today," Coach Bruce Munro commented near the end of the game...
...principals are dissatisfied with the sort of training that teachers are given. Fifty-eight percent say that teachers' colleges spend too much time on teaching techniques, too little on the subjects their graduates will be teaching. Wrote one disgusted principal: "The teachers' colleges are the poorest we have. Principals and superintendents are, more and more, people from the teachers' colleges who are basically ignorant of world culture and its background. They have only part of an education...
...much-troubled machine-tool industry reported that new orders in February increased 18% over January and 22.5% over December, which was the poorest month since October 1949. The National Association of Purchasing Agents announced that only 30% of its members reported worsening business conditions v. 45% the month before, while 19% found more business coming in v. 16% in February. Said the association: "There are some hopeful signs that the sharp downtrends in production prevalent for many months may be ending. Furthermore, there are indications that even the rapid rise in unemployment may be near the end. While only...