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Marking 28 million Xs on ballot papers that carried no mark of party affiliations but simply the names of their parliamentary candidates in 630 local constituencies, the voters of the British Isles last week gave Maurice Harold Macmillan, 65, a smashing personal triumph in one of the most decisive and...
¶ Edgar Finley Shannon Jr., 41, as fourth* president of the 140-year-old University of Virginia (enrollment: 4,468). He succeeds retiring Colgate W. Darden Jr., who nearly doubled the school's physical plant in twelve years. English Professor Shannon was a whiz-bang scholar and crack half...
Underlying the SEC's new problems is the fantastic growth of the U.S. stock market. From a value of $34 billion when the SEC began, stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange are now worth nearly $350 billion. In the past seven years alone, the number of shareholders...
The Conservative victory, although it represents a popular vote majority of less than 6 per cent over the Opposition, is decisive in Parliament. With 28,000,000 British voters giving 365 seats to the Conservatives, 258 to Labor and six to the Liberals, the Tory majority was nearly doubled to...
A return to the gold standard would probably have to be accompanied by a price hike in gold to provide more adequate backing for the vast expansion of money and credit in the last few decades. Some economists who do not advocate a return to the gold standard nonetheless want...