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...seniors of Northwestern University decided upon a new kind of senior-class gift for their alma mater: a plan to raise $4,000 to boost faculty salaries during the coming year. Wrote Class President Walter W. Doren in the Daily Northwestern: "The campuses of America are filled with benches, gates, clocks and similar senior-class gifts which have little or nothing to do with higher education's actual needs. Our class does not want to memorialize itself with a plaque. We wish instead to make a meaningful contribution to tomorrow...
...Missiles. Behind the speculation was a major change in U.S. air defense. Beginning this year, the U.S. will buy fewer manned aircraft than originally planned, will sharply accelerate the shift to guided missiles. After spending only 10% of its procurement funds on missiles in 1954, the U.S. will boost the outlay to 35% ($1.7 billion) for unmanned warbirds, and probably achieve a 50-50 split by 1960. For planemakers who have concentrated heavily on standard air frames, it will mean a rapid rejuggling of their production, the prospect of some thin years...
...enough oil to ease Europe's Suez shortage. But the hearings were hardly under way before the character of the villain underwent an amazing transformation: he began to look almost like a hero. Wyoming's Democratic Joe O'Mahoney. Senate subcommittee chairman, concluded that the price boost was justified for small independents, because oil costs have risen sharply without price relief for nearly four years. Said O'Mahoney: "They have it tougher and need the increase...
...However, the aged actually need a smaller fluid volume than younger persons, so in trying to guard against a deficit, doctors now take care not to boost the patient's fluid volume too high-otherwise, there is a risk of pneumonia...
...price increase, Florida Power & Light Co.'s President McGregor Smith testified that the price rise was the "greatest economic hurricane" the state had ever suffered. Florida Power alone, he said, will have to pay $6,000,000 more for fuel annually and must pass the boost on to its 600,000 customers; unless prices are cut, Congress should pass emergency price controls...