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...statistical signs and symbols of a serious inflationary spiral continue to mount. Industrial production figures for January indicate that U.S. plants are operating at near-capacity-meaning that soon they may not be able to produce enough goods to meet demand. In steel, the time lag between orders and delivery is still lengthening, and some mills are beginning to allocate output even among steady customers. According to the Commerce Department, manufacturing inventories went up sharply in December, the latest month on which figures have been compiled; this would presumably mean that businessmen are stockpiling against the threat of inflation...
Only someone able to define to a child what a spiral is without moving his right index finger can properly admire Patrick White's latest novel...
Only someone confident of his ability to demonstrate both a right-hand and left-hand spiral at the same time would have written The Solid Mandala...
Chief among these problems is the danger of inflation. While Johnson argued that the U.S. is not yet caught in a real price spiral, his Labor Department reported last week that the cost of living in December rose faster than in any December in 15 years-up 0.4%, to 111% of the 1957-59 average. In all, consumer prices last year climbed 2% primarily because of higher tags on meat (up 13.5%), medical care (up 2.8%) and other services...
...built to grow. Both the lab building and the library can triple their size outward from the college's core. One pedestrian expressway points toward Netsch's yet unbuilt art and architecture building, a multilevel, polygonal structure within which students will go from floor to floor in spiral fashion as well as by vertical stairways. Even the more massive structures that rim the campus are open to the city around them. "We use the buildings as gateways," Netsch explains. As urban as the new subway station built to disgorge students right onto one of its walkways...