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Organized last spring, the Radcliffe Debate Council will be sponsoring a local area tournament for the first time. Last weekend two 'Cliffe debaters competed against 36 schools in a National Forensic Tournament at Boston University and gained an even 3-3 record...
...year's level, the fifth straight weekly rise. Total industrial production in January moved up for the ninth straight month to 143% of the 1947-49 average, just four points below the all time peak of December 1956. Personal income was also up by $2.4 billion to a record $362.3 billion, and spurred buying. In mid-February, department stores rang up 8% more sales than last year...
Last March, when Congress put through emergency help for building, housing starts were down to a rate of 918,000 annually. But now housing is steaming ahead at the rate of 1,350,000 starts annually with forecasts of a record $52.3 billion (up from $49 billion) in total construction for the year without any increase in Government spending...
Although most banks consider desert building too speculative for loans to individual borrowers, they readily lend to Phillips because of his excellent record. Phillips' companies each year build close to 1,000 homes, most in desert areas, in the $8,000-to-$11,000 price range, and there is no end in sight...
Married. Chris Chataway, 27, English runner (now a BBC-TV commentator) who, with Chris Brasher, paced Miler Roger Bannister on the way to the first four-minute mile (1954), in the same year beat the Soviet Union's great Vladimir Kuc to set a world record for three miles (he shocked the Red athletes at a post-meet dinner by lighting up a big black cigar); and Anna Lett, 27, pretty blonde TV producer; in London. Ushers: Dr. Roger Bannister and Chris Brasher...