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¶ Ability of students admitted to college is rising sharply. Stanford reports an upswing in aptitude test scores between 1951 and 1956 "so great that the lower half of the class entering in 1951 simply would not have been admitted in 1956." But college faculties, suggests Professor Wise, "have neither...
¶Murray Corp.'s Easy Division of Syracuse increased its sales almost 100% over June in July, 22% in August and 20% in September, expects to triple its first-half sales volume in the last half of 1958. ¶ Whirlpool has seen a general upswing in orders in the...
Academically, the engineering facilities and endowments are being maintained strongly, and the arts program is definitely on the upswing.
America's men were reared with rubber nipples and talcum powder to an apron-strung neurosis. Homosexuality (8,000,000 in the U.S. at last estimate) went on the upswing--Dad had the only woman worth wanting. And Father became the fall-guy for every situation comedy and Sunday color...
Greatest achievement of the new regime at St. Bernard has been in winning over the hard-shell Protestant businessmen of Cullman. To do this, the priests became civic boosters, joined the Chamber of Commerce leaders in lassoing new industry, notably a recently arrived cigar manufacturer, whose emissaries were entertained at...