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Anybody with a bank account and sailing experience can sail the Pacific next summer according to Brice Sumner '53, who plans to pilot a 35-foot sailboat from Nagoya, Japan, to San Francisco...
...cars in every garage and a swimming pool in every back yard--that's the prediction of Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, who says it may happen in 30 years. The economist's forecasts are printed in next month's Atlantic, in the feature story...
Rodman A. Sharp '51 was elected president of the Photographic Society at its annual election meeting Monday night. Other newly elected officers are: William Rotch '51, secretary; Henry M. Stevens, Jr. '50, treasurer; and G. Groff-Smith '49 and Sumner I. Zacks '51, executive board members...
Good for Everyone. On the other hand, many U.S. exporters of machine tools, autos and farm equipment, feared that cheaper sterling would cut deeply into their markets in South America and overseas. On the whole, Harvard's Economist Sumner H. Slichter thought devaluation would benefit the U.S. economy. Said he: "American business concerns have been reluctant to go after business by cutting prices . . . Foreign goods at lower prices will stimulate at least a small amount of price-cutting in the U.S. . . . [And] any success of other countries in selling to the U.S. will simply increase their demand for American...
Died. Mrs. Mathilde Townsend Welles, 64, second wife of onetime (1937-43) Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles; of peritonitis; in Lausanne, Switzerland, where they were resting after his near escape from death in Maryland last December (he was found half-frozen and unconscious after collapsing while out for a walk...