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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the Class of 1931 and their sons will form before Eliot House at 1:30 p.m. for the march to Soldiers Field. Wives and daughters will proceed separately to a reserved grandstand section...
...During the whole war Stalin never visited any section of the front or any liberated city, except for one short ride on the Mozhaisk Highway during a stabilized situation at the front. To this incident were dedicated many literary works full of fantasies of all sorts and so many paintings...
Last week the secret of the copper scrolls came out. Their subject, announced the French, British and U.S. scholars who have been working on them in the Jordanian section of Jerusalem, was not spiritual at all. They were clues to buried treasure-and on a Fort Knox scale. Two hundred tons of gold and silver-were mentioned as well as a considerable cache of incense in about 60 separate hoards scattered over a 50-mile-long area from Hebron to Mount Gerizim, near Nablus...
...august National Bureau of Economic Research (1945-53). From 800 statistical series on the U.S. economy, Burns's staff picked 21 key indicators, business failures, durable-goods orders, etc. that faithfully pace business shifts. Under Burns the National Bureau also perfected the "diffusion index," a cross section of indicators used to gauge the strength of an upswing or downturn...
...which are being born in ever-increasing numbers in the U.S. and Canada, and cattle experts are building up herds of dwarfs for study. Last week Professor E. W. Stringam of the University, of Manitoba was tenderly nursing a bull calf which he and assistants had delivered by Caesarean section from a dwarf cow. The calf, sired by a normal young bull, is normal in proportions. It will outweigh its mother in three months, but it probably carries the taint of hereditary dwarfism...