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Market Up. With all the bullish news, it was small wonder that the stock market continued its spectacular advance. Last week, following such blue chips as General Motors (up $4 to $89 a share) and Standard Oil of Indiana (up $12 to $95), the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed six points, for a fortnight's gain of 13. At 316.67, it was only 20 points below the alltime high of 381.17 in September...
SWITZERLAND may become the first nation to return to a partial gold standard. With more gold than is needed to back their currency 100%, the prosperous Swiss will experiment by minting gold francs in 25 fr. ($5.83) and 50 fr. ($11.66) denominations, will start off by issuing 50 to 100 million francs worth of gold coins...
...free world. But he also knows that French foreign policy cannot be a brittle shell over a rotting core. For communism can breed in the rubble of economic distress as easily as it can overrun an unarmed Germany. The French premier has already begun to boost a standard of living that has revived far too slowly since the war. With a coldly realistic appraisal, he has trimmed France's foreign commitments to take some of the strain off the nation's creaking economy. He has recognized that France is no longer the major power it once was. Some...
...what is a turnabout of the standard procedure, Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, in opposing reticent and Fifth Amendment witnesses charged that "academic freedom means freedom to search for the truth and such freedom is not exercised by persons who are bound to a certain ideology or who belong to a conspiracy that justifies lying as a means of accomplishing its result. Academic freedom," he added criticising insubordinate teachers who have given ambiguous testimony, "is a right that belongs to people of integrity...
...about six and a half minutes, The Tender Trap is a comedy. The play runs considerably over two hours. And this ratio makes one wonder if the standard Boston remedy of pruning the script will be quite enough. After a thorough job, the director would be left with but one scene and a few scattered chuckles, intermittent moments when The Tender Trap thrusts through the cultivated banality which marks 23/24s...