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Marxist Monastery. No one learns earlier than the Russian executive the grim tasks of stooging for the state, of apple polishing, buck passing, of loading ledgers and unloading responsibility, finding loopholes in Parkinson's Law and keeping ahead by one whisker in the career race. Marx wrote: "The Communists seek to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class," but any bright boy of the commissar caste should have a good laugh over this. If he fails to make a grade, he disappears without appeal into the grey unprivileged proletarian mass below. Inch by inch, his nose ever...
...Farnborough Air Show, 50 miles southwest of London, British flyers put on a dazzling display for 8,000 foreign visitors last week. Fourteen Hawker Hunter jet fighters looped through a whisker-tight formation. Two twin-jet Scimitar fighter-bombers barreled in for a landing, folded their wings just in time to allow a third Scimitar to fly in head-on between them. But all the planes on display and the superb acrobatics could not hide the fact that Britain's aircraft industry is losing altitude fast. Even the empire-loving London Daily Express warned its readers...
expectation by a whisker. The modest
...midseason 1958, a big (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.) Negro fullback named James Nathaniel Brown of the Cleveland Browns is the most spectacular professional football player in the U.S. With the twelve-game season only half gone, Jimmy Brown, 22, is already within a whisker of topping the all-time pro records for touchdowns (18) and total rushing yardage (1.146) set by Philadelphia's Steve Van Buren in the 19403. In six games Brown has piled up 15 touchdowns, gained 928 yards, been the prime mover in the Cleveland Browns' try for their eighth division championship...
...rose to a new 1958 high last week. Stocks hit 478.97 in the Dow-Jones industrial average, then recovered from a sharp sell-off to close the week at 473.60. Encouraged by the Senate vote to repeal the 10% passenger and 3% freight taxes, rails closed at 119.17, a whisker under the year's high. But while the confidence of many investors returned, the skepticism of others increased. The short position, which has been rising for five months, was reported last week at 5,795,105 shares, highest since the records began...