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...plants shipping goods in interstate commerce, but Deep Dixie has massively resisted state minimum-wage laws to cover local industry and retail businesses fattened by the new payrolls. Last week progressive North Carolina (TIME, May 4) broke the Deep South line with a 75?-an-hour minimum that assured prompt raises for 55,000 low-paid Tarheels...
...fascism . . . appearing everywhere on the American scene," the "capitalistic-based administrators" who run the University, Christian choir-singers who sell out on their faith for two bucks a throw, and concludes with an affirmation that "the number of blobs at Harvard is infinite." No doubt this will prompt at least one 'Cliffie to prod her roommate with "See, I told you, we should have gone to Ohio State where men are really...
...good. But the Street and the corporations it serves can do a great deal more to curb uninformed speculation by their own efforts, instead of wagging a finger at the public. When irresponsible rumors boom a stock, company officials often keep quiet rather than making the prompt denials that would cool it off. Many a stock has been run up on wild rumors when there is so little stock available that any buying or selling sends it rollercoasting. The exchange has the power to suspend trading when the floating supply of stock in an issue is less than...
GENEVA, April 13--The United States and Britain proposed a prompt termination of atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests today, but the initial Soviet reaction to the proposal was cool...
...while, a Harvard University research team at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital tried yet another approach. They took bone marrow from the patients during such remissions, deep-froze it until all drugs had ceased to work, then gave the children 600 r. of X rays and a prompt reinjection of their own marrow. In the New England Journal of Medicine the doctors report that one case was a clear failure; the second child died, but with no signs of leukemia, while a third (a two-year-old girl) went home and lived for months, though she later died...