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Many U.S. firms have discovered that the best and safest method is to buy a partnership in a European firm. Faced with much stiffer competition in the common market, European manufacturers are eager to get U.S. cash and technical know-how to help them meet it. A U.S. firm, on the other hand, can profit from its European partner's intimate knowledge of his market and area...
Randolph read to the President a nine-point demand for executive programs ranging from a White House conference between Negro and Southern leaders, to handing out special aid to schools that might lose state funds under Southern anti-integration statutes, to stiffer Justice Department action on cases where Negroes have been denied voting rights...
...stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average up seven points to 469.60, the highest level since September and a good 50 points above the recession low set last October. Spurred on by the good steel news, U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic rose. Lower gasoline stocks and the prospect of stiffer curbs shoved the depressed oils ahead. Even the troubled railroads, which have had precious little to toot about this year, built up some steam. With the possibility of favorable legislation, the Dow-Jones railroad average hit a new 1958 high...
This influx of applicants has required much more selectivity than was allowed in the past, and as those who survive the admissions race are turning out to be brighter each year, the college pressure has worked in two ways to make the curriculum stiffer in school--in bringing more able students each year and in requiring more achievement for admission. This year and next will see broad changes in certain areas of study at Middlesex. In the field of languages, three years of German will be offered, instead of only two as before. German will now be in direct competition...
...opened for exploration. All oil leasing has been suspended by U.S. since Richfield Oil Corp. made Alaska's first big oil strike in Kenai last summer. Now Interior Secretary Seaton says U.S. authorities "are very close to agreement on additional areas" to be opened for oil search under stiffer rules for preserving wildlife...