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...nation's 1,800 institutions of higher learn ing can still keep up with the demand. But what of the years immediately ahead? By the time the present crop of first-graders is ready for college, says Dean of Admissions Arthur Howe Jr. of Yale, en rollments may soar to between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000. What the favored campuses are going through now will soon become the standard pattern...
...true. The crews were as carefully briefed and seemingly as routinely inured as for any long-distance trip. Yet as they proved once again SAC's enormous everyday striking power, it was also clear that SAC's able flyers had made the kind of history that would soar to the top of man's unending catalogue of conquests over nature...
...Hungarian refugees authorized to enter the U.S. in 1956 were arriving last week, the Immigration and Naturalization Service reported that 1956 immigration topped 350,000-the highest total of any year since 1924. At the White House, President Eisenhower considered legislation to permit the 1957 total to soar even higher. He also ordered Attorney General Herbert Brownell to continue to admit unspecified numbers of Hungarian refugees under the "parole" provision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration law "until such time as the Congress acts...
...impulse is felt by all ages. Nobody among the junior low-fi set knows exactly what he will hear when he takes the disks home (buying has actually been cut down by a phonograph playing samples in the store) but the riotously colorful jackets are enough to make sales soar. Packaging and merchandising are fancy and getting fancier-Cellophane windows, stereoscopic pictures with viewer, picture books with sound cues on accompanying records for turning pages. But the tunes that go into the grooves have shown no basic development since Polly Put the Kettle...
...goals, individual companies were boldly raising their already lofty sights. General Electric Chairman Philip D. Reed, whose company is committed to a $500 million expansion program in the next three years, announced last week that the figure was "very much on the conservative side." As predictions of future markets soar, General Electric may well have to boost its original estimate by a spectacular 40%. Said Reed: "There is no leveling off in the need for capital expenditures, and nothing in the picture to suggest any lessening of pressure for new equipment and facilities...