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...year, booming Canada wound up with a budget surplus. The 1954-55 budget, presented to Parliament last week, reported a $10 million surplus from last year. That was the smallest since 1946, too small to permit any income-tax cuts, but still big enough to keep Canada in the select group of countries currently operating in the black...
Housed in an 1801 Georgian mansion and surrounded by beautiful gardens, a handful of resident and visiting scholars and a select group of fellows carry on studies in almost every aspect of the culture of the Byzantine empire...
...proven record of impartiality, and who had never before taken part in a major government investigation. Senator Mundt played his hand carefully. Instead of starting the investigation immediately, when public opinion was strongly in favor of the Army, he waited two weeks on the pretext that he had to select a counsel. But he didn't have far to look. In his desk he had a letter from Samuel P. Sears '17, asking...
Such was the man who moved in Rome's most select circles, who addressed the national chief of police Tommaso Pavone with the intimate "tu." Many of those who originally doubted La Caglio's story changed their minds. The Communists promptly trumpeted the fact that Scelba and Montagna had both been witnesses at the wedding of Spataro's son two years ago, pointed out that Scelba himself had appointed Pavone chief of police...
Several courses far down in the '53 ratings have climbed into the select 20 group. Probably the most formidable rise was made by Government 115, which soared from 30th a year ago to 15th this year. Slightly less meteoric are the moves of Fine Arts 13 to 13th from 21st last spring and of Social Science 1 from 17th to ninth...