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Since Jordan will be on a leave of absence during the Spring Term, his successor, Mrs. Marry I. Bunting, will act as President, beginning Feb. 1. She will also become a lecture in Biology, effective the same date...
...started just three years ago with an encouraging kick from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Said Burke to Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr., officer in charge: "Tell me what you have done, not what you are going to do." Raborn cut years off the schedule (original target date: 1963), partly by starting in on a hull that was already in construction (the first Skipjack). The parallel program for the development of the Polaris solid-fuel missile cranked up more speed. Raborn poured new money into every bottleneck-ing delay, kept his promise that he would have the first ship...
...estimated to be anywhere from 580 million to 680 million, has had a curiously confused attitude toward bigness-alternating between a desire for manpower and a concern for so many mouths to feed. Early in 1956, Peking turned on a birth control campaign that plugged everything from up-to-date devices to the favorite oral contraceptive of Chinese herbalists: live tadpoles. But in 1958, Red China's bosses quietly dropped birth control, now preach the gospel according to Karl Marx: an increase in population is always an increase in capital...
...television. Next thing guards knew, Kidnaper-Rapist Chessman and several other cons were pummeling one of their number who, even on death row, is a pariah to his fellow prisoners. By the time the brawl was stopped, the TV set lay smashed on the floor. Chessman, who has a date with the gas chamber in mid-February (his eighth such appointment set in the past twelve years), now faces an isolation penalty (maximum: 30 days) for his part in the Donnybrook...
...economy is growing much faster than the Federal Reserve - and most economists - had charted. The faster pace was revealed when the Fed updated its industrial-production index for the first time since 1953; output has been rising at a rate of 4.1% a year from 1947 to date, v. 3.7% previously calculated. As a result, the revised index hit a peak of 166 (1947-49 equals 100) last June before the steel strike, instead of the 155 previously reported...