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...automaker now in business to make seat belts standard equipment, no one had any fear that motorists would once more lay hold of their razors. Finally convinced by safety authorities that seat belts can prevent many traffic deaths, U.S. motorists are buying them so fast that sales have risen threefold since 1960 to $63 million last year-and this year are running at double the 1962 rate...
Under Keppel, the Harvard School of Education's enrollment has risen nearly threefold to 657, its budget tenfold to $3,063,000. Highly influential, the school now boasts as alumni the state commissioners of education in New York and Massachusetts, New York City's newly appointed School Superintendent Calvin E. Gross (who was picked largely on Keppel's recommendation), and last year's head of the White House nursery school, who may have put in a good word about her old dean...
Last week safety experts figured that some 3,300,000 (more than 5%) of the nation's 64 million passenger cars are already fitted with safety belts, at least for the front seats. This is a threefold increase over last year, and the number is expected to double again by year's end. Main reason: five states (Mississippi, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wisconsin) have passed laws requiring all new cars to be equipped with seat belts in the near future...
...arable land, individual peasants own 50% of all cows, 25% of the hogs, produce 65% of the potatoes and cabbage that are Russia's basic foods. European economists speculated last week that Nikita Khrushchev could still solve the farm problem in a single stroke. The solution: a threefold increase in the peasants' private plots...
Under Hesburgh, Notre Dame has put up twelve new buildings worth $12.6 million, started another $13.5 million construction program, increased faculty salaries by 90%, tripled endowment to $25 million. The school's operating budget is up threefold, its science spending tenfold. On completion, the new $8,000,000 library will house 2,000,000 books, five times more than the present library. All this is part of a ten-year (deadline: 1968) $66 million "Program for Excellence...