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Rents will rise ten per cent in the Graduate Center Dormitories next fall because of a soundproofing project and general increased maintenance costs, Wesley E. Bevins, Jr., Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Law, announced yesterday...
...Manuel into operation, the Government gave Magma a strong helping hand: a $94 million loan from the RFC, fast tax write-offs on plant and railroad, and a price prop at 24? a Ib. With copper now selling at 43? a Ib., Magma's rough-and-ready President Wesley P. Goss had plenty of reason to fire up San Manuel ahead of schedule. Says he: "When you have more than $100 million tied up, you are interested in getting into production as quickly as possible and getting some of those dollars back...
...Wesley Shrader looks at the ministry from a different perspective: he is pastor of the First Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va. His slim book, Dear Charles (Macmillan; $2.50), is a light but merciless exposé of the rituals of tinkling cymbalism. It is more disturbing than Gantry because it could easily pass as the handbook of many a modern clergyman...
...Americans prosperous simply because they stumbled upon a fabulous lode of natural resources? The book quotes the late Economist Wesley Mitchell, who pointed out that American Indians "lived in a poverty-stricken environment. For them, no coal existed, no petroleum, no metals beyond nuggets of pure copper . . . A precarious food supply, flimsy housing, mystical medicine and chronic warfare limited the increase in numbers." Says Dewhurst: "Technology, in fact, can be thought of as the primary resource; without it all other resources would be economically nonexistent . . . Technological progress during the past century, especially since 1900, appears to have been more rapid...
Married. Arline Judge, 45, much-mated cinemactress; and Edward Cooper Heard, 40, inventor-businessman; she for the seventh time (among the others: Director Wesley Ruggles, tin-plate millionaire brothers Dan and Bob Topping), he for the second; in Las Vegas...