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After the results were in, Crimson Coach Cooney Weiland said, "This is a tremendous boost for golf at Harvard. Next year we'll have some golfers coming here, instead of to Yale...
...RATES will rise in next year. Hospital rates jumped 10% to 12% in U.S. last year, are expected to go up about 6% annually for next five-six years. New York Blue Cross which had deficit in 1956 and expects another in 1957, will ask state authorities for first boost since...
...slab zinc output (an amount almost equaling 1956 imports) off an overloaded market, has met its goals and will end "in a matter of months." The only solution for the miners' troubles, said Robert Hendricks, vice president of the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada Ltd., is to boost demand. Said he: "The producers must engage in extensive research to develop important new uses for lead and zinc and to improve the advantages which these metals already have...
...profits split was so onesided against ENI that even some in the Iranian government suspected ENI's motive was publicity, to make Italy seem generous in demanding only a 60-40 split for concessions in her country. For some time Italy and Iran both have been trying to boost the 50-50 split that is standard in the Middle East...
SAVINGS BOND BOOST in interest to 3¼% from 3% was signed into law by President Eisenhower. To spur sagging sales, law will make $18.75 bonds worth $25 in eight years, eleven months after purchase instead of current nine years, eight months. Rate applies to Series E bonds, also Series H bonds that have a face value of $500 or more...