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...talk of recession, Wall Street still had a strong answer. Last week the Dow-Jones averages, which had been rising for four weeks, kept bumping against their ceiling in heavy buying. But profit-taking nipped the advances, and the averages ended the week a shade below their high. Utilities set a new high for 22 years and rails were also up, though still a good bit below the 1953 high. Bears could argue that the averages included only 65 stocks, thus were not the best measure of the market's strength. But many stocks not in the averages were...
...colored glass in turn. Dr. Miles lists their effects. If ordinary daytime vision is 20/20, then visual acuity at night, through clear glass, is cut to 20/32. A popular "night glass" of light yellow reduces visual acuity only to 20/34. But Dr. Miles found that a second popular shade, pink, cut visual acuity to 20/40. Finally, a green windshield reduced nighttime acuity to 20/46, but in combination with the pink glasses, it slashed vision to a deadly 20/60...
...term has begun and J. Harper Mockmouse is among the missing. He was a small student, nervous by nature, one of those addicted to the sanctity of his own room. But he will ever have a chance to enjoy the fresh shade of pearl gray that now decorates its walls. His failure to survive the term is a lasting tribute to the University's quest for that which is next to godliness...
...think that in the course of another few thousand years, when the human race has become civilized . . .there will be only one skin shade-a golden blend of all the human strains on earth...
While shuddering for my children, I am, at 65, glad that I shall not live in the shade of that newly sprouting oak on your cover...