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...cleared only 6 ft. 10½ in. to finish third at Melbourne) claimed a jump of 7 ft. ¼ in., western trackmen began to wonder what was going on. The seven-foot barrier, which had once tripped everyone but California's Charley Dumas, seemed suddenly to have shrunk...
...vast that it can hold 200,000 people standing before the largest church in Christendom, is a triumph of the second Rome that rose up under the Renaissance Popes from the ruins of classic Rome and the squalid clutter of the medieval city (which at one point had shrunk to a mere 15,000 malaria-ridden inhabitants). Michelangelo, Bramante and Raphael quarried out of the classic ruins the great principles they used in constructing St. Peter's (and quarried the ruins themselves for much of the stone). But even pagan Rome offered no precedent for an approach space...
...minor parties will also batter the entrenched Liberals. The strength of the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation has shrunk in an era of contentment and prosperity, seems unlikely to add many seats to the 22 it held in the last Parliament. The Social Credit party, a depression-born agrarian movement that turned right with prosperity, now controls the governments of Alberta and British Columbia, plans a major push in Eastern Canada this year to build up its Parliamentary bloc of 15. All of the opposition is encouraged by one Canadian political trend. Of the six provincial governments controlled by the Liberals...
Well Satisfied. When the conference was over at week's end, the areas of foreign-policy disagreement seemed to have shrunk in both size and importance, and the two governments had reached some new common ground. Especially gratifying to the British were two major decisions: ¶ The U.S. will join the military committee of the Baghdad Pact (Britain, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey), as the British have long urged. Eisenhower & Co. made the decision shortly before the conference, announced it to the British as a highly pleasant surprise. The U.S. will not become a full member of the pact...
...Mitchell defends every dollar in the Labor Department's $418 million budget. Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Folsom is fighting hard for the endangered $451 million school-aid program. Last week Postmaster General Summerfield reported that his estimate of the 1958 Post Office deficit had swelled rather than shrunk since January. Secretary Benson gloomily announced that he saw "no alternative" but to spend the massive $5.3 billion requested by the Agriculture Department to keep the farmers happy. Secretary Wilson told a press conference that it would take "a lot of work" to hold Defense costs within the whopping...