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...rays, may already be at a dangerous level. So warned a 15-country United Nations scientific committee last week, after studying world radiation for 2½ years. Shunning politics, the experts voted against urging a ban on nuclear tests. As top scientists, they voiced a sobering opinion: "Even the smallest amounts of radiation are likely to cause deleterious genetic and perhaps somatic effects...
Mutual Security. President Eisenhower named $3,950,000,000 as "the smallest amount we may wisely invest in mutual security." Skillful missionary work by State Department's Deputy Under Secretary Douglas Dillon helped persuade Congress to authorize a $3,675,000,000 program, only $275 million below the Administration request. But actual appropriations, handled apart from program authorization, got ambushed in the House, where Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, chairman of key Appropriations Subcommittee, engineered a slash of $597 million below authorization figure ($872 million below Administration request). President Eisenhower desk-hammered at G.O.P. congressional leaders ("This thing is vital...
...people or more, is a vast desert whose rich deposits of iron and copper ore are still to be exploited. The Upper Volta has as many livestock as people, and its workers must migrate from the territory each year to find jobs. Niger, the largest territory, and Dahomey, the smallest, barely manage to survive...
...continued to rise in June to a rate of 1,090,000, highest since the boomtime year of 1956. There was even a small but bright spot of light in the auto industry. Although July stocks of unsold cars and trucks amounted to 695,000 units, it was the smallest inventory for this time of year since July 1954. To help work off the rest of the load, Detroit carefully held back from rushing in to replenish dealer stocks, allowed shortages to develop in some lines of convertibles and station wagons. Looking ahead, the industry anticipated that July, August, September...
Lourdes hucksters gave no sign that they saw any such error. In this centennial year, pilgrims are expected to spend more than $190 million on pious objects. Even the smallest shop near the shrine is estimated to be worth almost $200,000 to its owner. Lourdes has now even put hinges on its street signs to reroute traffic through a different area of town every two weeks so as to give each merchant an equal crack at the pilgrims...