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RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY will continue operation because New York Central, the largest stockholder, reversed a previous decision to withdraw. Broad reorganization plan to change the agency's payment method and improve traffic routing was unanimously approved by 178 member railroads...
Preliminary Summer School figures indicate that the total enrollment for this session will be approximately 3,665, an increase of about 165 since last year. The percentage of women also increased, from a previous high of 43 per cent, to 47 per cent...
Racial Segregation: Any segregation that "interferes with the citizen's equality of opportunity in both the economic and the political fields" is "morally wrong"-a judgment that seemed to carry the President slightly beyond his previous down-the-middle position that his job is to enforce the law of the land without making moral pronouncements...
...week, the scramble was for 29 French impressionist and postimpressionist works put up for auction by American Collector Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Paul Cezanne's portrait of his wife went for $112,000; Georges Braque's cubist Woman with Mandolin brought $100,800. more than double the previous top price for a Braque canvas; a pair of Renoir portraits (Ambroise Vollard as a Toreador and Misia Sert) sold for $61,600 and $44,800. Total sale: $613,256, which Chrysler will give to his Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, Mass., opened last year to show part...
Wall Street's bull market last week made its biggest weekly jump of 1959. The Dow-Jones industrial average scooted up 15.51 points to close at 654.76. It was well above the previous alltime high of 643.79 set May 29. and more than 70 points ahead of where the average started on Jan. 1. Brokers expected the climb to continue. Not only was business news generally bright, but the record showed that industrials have advanced smartly in July and August in two years out of every three during the 20th century...