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FISCAL Monetary Study by C.E.D. Despite the fabulously complex growth of the U.S. economy, no major study of the country's monetary system has been undertaken for nearly 50 years. Early this year Congress turned down President Eisenhower's appeal for such a study, and almost every previous Congressional investigation has turned into a partisan political probe. Last week the Committee for Economic Development announced receipt of a $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for the first full-scale inquiry into U.S. monetary policies since the Aldrich Commission of 1908, which laid the foundation of the Federal...
Woolston, a rugged 6-3 senior forward, led the team in total scoring and total rebounding, and was chosen captain unanimously at the close of the season. Woolston improved noticeably from the previous campaign, and was the most dependable player on the court always throughout the season. He could always be counted on for about 15 points and a like number of rebounds...
Fred L. Whipple, director of the observatory, said that a joint study of Sputnik by Smithsonian and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory revealed that the air at an altitude of 140 miles is "five times denser" than previous American rocket studies had shown...
...Tear the thing down," urged another citizen, interjecting among these four words an equal number of obscenities. Hizzoner and Monseigneur dismounted from the bulldozer. The Annunciators, noticeably weakened by their previous selection, began a prolonged drum roll...
...sniffles faded away last week, Asian flu was no longer a big menace to crowd-filled movie houses. Boosting totals by some 1,500,000 adult admissions (a 5.4% increase over the previous week), a sudden moviegoing upswing ended a ten-week fall in attendance that had dropped 23.7% below the same 1956 period. Except for the Midwest, the reverse trend was nationwide, and the flu-thawed East boasted the highest jump...