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...marchers' inspiration, dinned in mass meetings and magazine articles, was the view of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Writer Philip Toynbee, son of the famed historian, that nuclear disarmament will probably bring Communist domination, but that domination is preferable to the prospect of nuclear war. The London Daily Telegraph, speaking for millions of Britons, called the demonstrators "a motley...
...brighter side, most consumer and service industries were booming. The world's biggest money earner. American Telephone & Telegraph, which installed 450,000 new phones in the quarter (down from 775,000 a year ago), reported profits of $2.76 a share (up from $2.63 a year ago). International Business Machines rang up record sales, and its quarterly profits soared to $1.98 a share from $1.78 for 1957's first quarter, when there were fewer shares outstanding. Revlon's earnings edged up slightly to a new record. Fast-moving Polaroid's net jumped to 31?, up from...
...tests are more important to us than theirs are to them." Two Kinds of Fission. But nearly every political poll shows the Tories trailing Labor in popularity, and odds are that after the next general election, Britain will have a Labor government. Wrote London's conservative Daily Telegraph last week: "These foolish concessions might lessen the danger of political fission within the Labor Party. But they would do nothing to lessen the danger of nuclear fission in the world at large. Indeed, by getting out of step with the Americans and breaking up Western unity on disarmament, we might...
...After totting up attendance figures for U.S. spectator sports. Triangle Publications (Morning Telegraph, Daily Racing Form) raced to report that horse parks, with 53,820,958 customers, led all other competitors for the sportsman's spare time. Second: baseball, with 32,512,503 (despite a drop of more than 1,500,000 in minor-league attendance). Third: football, with the colleges and pros playing to a combined...
...regulatory agencies are swamped with work, partly because most of them were set up without anticipating later business changes that have greatly increased their scope. The FCC was set up to police radio, telephone and telegraph, but in the last six years has had to pass also on 400 TV permits without a commensurate increase in staff. Despite the tremendous growth in stock issues...