Word: wall
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WHEN the most paradoxical prelate of his day arrived in Rome last week, TIME'S Vatican Correspondent William Rospigliosi was so eager to see him that he all but climbed a wall of the visitor's residence to get a glimpse. Next day Rospigliosi saw Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski closer up for a background talk. From Warsaw two TIME correspondents relayed their findings on the publicity-shy cardinal to the Bonn bureau, which incorporated exhaustive research among Polish refugees in Germany. In Pittsburgh TIME'S correspondent interviewed U.S. travelers who had recently seen Wyszynski. Result...
Shocked residents of Lampasas, Texas counted three dead and five million dollars damage yesterday from a ten-foot wall of water that crashed through a broken levee into this central Texas town last night...
...four of the five trading days last week, Wall Street was warmed by a continuance of the spring rise in stocks. The Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 6.04 points to within a point of the year's high of 498.56 before being nipped by profit-taking. As it stood, stocks wound up the week at 497.54, some 43 points higher than the low for the year. Main reason: a continuing chorus of cheery first-quarter earnings reports...
Much of the gloom has come from the financial pages of the daily papers, whose headlines tend to magnify any slowdown out of all proportion. One day last week, for example, the downbeat Wall Street Journal filled its front page with news of lower auto production, a reduction in electric power use, reports of low earnings and reduced dividends by four companies. Buried in the back pages were the first-quarter reports of 58 other companies, half of which had higher, or record, earnings. The same pessimism is shown by many other financial reporters. When University of Illinois Economist...
Ladders over the Dead. Behind the city's seven miles of wall, in control of masses of artillery, the rebels seemed to be sitting pretty. But slowly, despite a military organization like a Pentagon without a car pool (there were only 273 miles of railway line in all India), the British moved to assault the walls they had fortified and the men they had trained. To move a division required several thousand bullocks. Elephants were the heavy-weapons carriers, and when they became casualties, disease carriers; their huge, rotting corpses littered the plains...