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CASH DIVIDENDS rose to $2.822 billion in first quarter from $2.808 billion a year ago, but this was slowest gain since World...
...high and wondrously sophisticated, and it will probably stay in space many years longer than any of its earlier rivals. Its elliptical orbit varies between 404 miles and 2,466 miles above the earth. When it is ending its climb toward the high point (apogee), the satellite is moving slowest: only 12,000 m.p.h. Then it swoops down to the low point (perigee) and increases its speed to 18,400 m.p.h. It makes a full trip around the ellipse, 34,100 miles, in 134 minutes...
...second and third. The only non-Indianapolis-type cars to compete were British Jaguars, and three of them, entered by the same Scots team that swept the 24-hour Grand Prix at Le Mans, France, came in behind Parsons. So fast was the new Italian track that even the slowest car to finish shattered Sam Hanks's Indianapolis record of 135.601 m.p.h...
...mother taught her six children at home because time was wasted in school on nonessentials and the pace geared to the slowest. When my father, a lawyer, heard her plan, he said she was liable to be haled into court. Instead, the school department (Brockton, Mass.) sent us desks and chairs. Using her own original system, my mother telescoped six grammar grades into one year of home study. We went to school for the first time in the sixth grade at eight years of age; graduated from high school at fifteen and went to Radcliffe College or the Sorbonne...
Last year, for the first time since the war, said the report, the rate of housebuilding overtook the bare needs of replacement and population growth. The fastest-building countries were Norway (10.5 units per 1,000 pop.) and West Germany (10.2).* Slowest were Czechoslovakia (2.2) and East Germany (2.3). France, because it delayed so long and has so far to go. made the most dramatic acceleration (40% of French houses have officially passed the age of obsolescence-100 years). In two years, France's construction doubled to 162,000 units...