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Mundt's proposal might close the gap created by the FBI's quite proper refusal to evaluate its own reports. Unless some central agency is created, Government departments will continue to handle security evidence by inconsistent standards...
...industrial blade of Dr. Burns's scissors, however, would have to move still faster to close the gap with the financial blade. Last week stock prices continued their eight-month advance. Among the most active stocks were Studebaker (up 2¾ to 18) and Packard (up ⅝ to 4) on reports that a merger of the companies would be announced shortly. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 1.4 points, closed the week at a new 25-year high...
This week, in the year commemorating the arrival of the first group of Jewish families in America 300 years ago,* the Beth Sholom Congregation in Philadelphia announced that U.S. Judaism was hoping to close the gap. It had commissioned Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a synagogue which would "wed the American spirit to the ancient spirit of Israel." Wright's synagogue began as a gleam in the pastoral eye of Mortimer J. Cohen, rabbi of the Beth Sholom Congregation...
...summer's end, Mr. Hobbs decides that the age gap is too great for him to be a pal to his children or grandchildren, that his ties to them "can only be based on need or respect." He also decides, despite all its mishaps, that the summer was "hard to beat." But readers will find that Mr. Hobbs' Vacation has not even come close this time to beating Father of the Bride...
...slows the recovery program and results in a lower standard of living, making these nations more vulnerable in their fight against Communist propaganda. What makes the situation particularly dangerous is the impending drop of nearly three and a half billion dollars in aid. In order to keep the dollar gap closed, foreign countries will be forced to increase their restrictions even further. If it were not for the U. S. tariff barriers, Europeans could make up their dollar deficit by selling goods on the American market...