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...plumped down with a sociologist, a historian and a literary critic. "That first luncheon," he said, "was like opening windows in a stuffy room." Equally impressive is Yale Neurosurgeon Karl Pribram's summation. For him the Casbah's value lay as much in a personal boost as in other people's ideas. "You have no administration, no classes, no students. You can evaluate your own work in terms of your own needs and wants, not society's. When you go back into the world, you can better gauge what you can fluff off-and what...
...Mississippi (6-0)-drubbed tough Arkansas, 28-0, as Charlie Flowers scored twice to boost his All-America candidacy...
...nation's harried railroads, who hoped for a boost in booming 1959, the strike dealt a smashing blow. In 13 weeks the roads lost an estimated $459 million in gross revenues. Railroad employment on Sept. 30 fell to 797,195, the lowest since 1900. Third-quarter rail earnings, when they come out in the next several weeks, will not make pleasant reading...
Economists were cheered by the signs of the U.S. businessman's confidence in the future. The latest survey by the Commerce Department and the Securities & Exchange Commission, taken after the strike, showed a significant boost in industry's plans for new plant and equipment expenditures. With more money going for industrial plants and public works, capital investment should rise to an annual rate of $35.3 billion in the final quarter of 1959. $1 billion more than the third-quarter rate and $5 billion more than a year...
...beyond the cost of the ad. They pushed California's Paul Masson brandy by poking fun at bourbon ("Kentucky is a great place for breeding horses") and vodka ("If you can't see it, taste it, or smell it, why bother?''), helped their client boost champagne and brandy sales 46% in two years...