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AUTO PRICING BILL, passed by Senate to require carmakers to stick a "suggested" retail price on each car delivered (TIME, May 19), is being bucked belatedly by Justice Department. Trustbusters contend that bill might actually tend to fix prices, would not give buyer sufficient protection...
...something on a wristwatch is shaken when the teacher forces him to examine what he actually means by a "year." He begins to think how the ancients measured, with only rough instruments, the recurrence of the solstice, and how they had to repeat this many times to average and fix the duration of the year. By December the students are able to measure the solstice within a few days, and they understand their instruments well enough to know why they cannot figure it exactly...
...English course. Furthermore, within the science course, attention is drawn to the implications of science for society. For example, in the study of the development of the ancient idea of the year, it is shown that a stable society was required to keep the records needed to fix a year's duration. Again, some idea of the growing complexity of human thought is shown in the study of the increasingly sophisticated calendars of the various ancient societies and their alteration into the modern...
...week added still another, left over from a time of shortage. In Alexandria, Va., a federal grand jury indicted 29 of the industry's companies-among them: Standard Oil (N.J.), Socony-Mobil, Shell Oil, Gulf, Tidewater, Phillips Petroleum-for allegedly using the Suez crisis 19 months ago to fix prices of crude oil and gasoline, accused them of violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring to restrain trade. It was the first large-scale criminal price-fixing case against the industry in more than 20 years, and one that oilmen promised to fight to the bitter...
...dithyrambic poem Howl (which the New York Times's Critic J. Donald Adams has suggested should be retitled Bleat) with the lines: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix...