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...martinis chilled thirsty throats, and from across hedgerows and fences came the cries of exultant youngsters and the yells and laughter of men and women engaged in a rough-and-tumble game of croquet or volleyball. (In Springfield Township, near Philadelphia, nine couples recently pounded through a rousing volleyball match; five of the women were pregnant, but no emergency deliveries were made that...
Army & Oil. In the space of barely four years, the twin dynamos of nationalist rebellion and oil discovery have produced a button-busting boom that no city in metropolitan France can match. Since 1956, population has doubled, is now approaching 1,000,000. The first whiff of prosperity came when France increased its Algerian army first to 200,000, then to 500,000 men to fight the F.L.N. rebels. Most of the new troops were reservists drawing far higher pay than the ordinary conscript rate, and produced unheard-of business for Algiers' bars, restaurants and shops. And with...
...sheer accumulation of art treasures, few college alumni groups can match the record of Old Yale Blues. Such acquisitiveness was perhaps inspired by Elihu Yale himself, who used his considerable merchant fortune to amass more than 9,000 paintings before he died in 1721. Four years ago a special university committee canvassed Yale collectors, persuaded them to exhibit 250 oils, watercolors and drawings at an alumni showing at the Yale University Art Gallery. Last week in New Haven, the second Yale alumni loan show was drawing record throngs. They were inspecting 265 new selections of Yale art-from a 15th...
Growth stocks are not confined to missiles and electronics, also include such varied fields as drugs, office equipment and vending machines. Over the past year, Texas Instruments has jumped from 121 to 236½, Merck from 79 to 95, Universal Match from 74 to 157¾ after one split. Even the blue chips that have picked up some glamour have been doing well, such as IBM, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing and General Foods. Compared with the traditional price-earnings ratio of 16 to 1 for the blue chips, many of the glamour stocks are selling at up to 70 times earnings...
...opened the space age on Oct. 4, 1957 with Sputnik I. With the doomed dog Laika, the U.S.S.R. put the first animal into orbit. The Soviets scored the first hit on the moon, took the first photograph of the moon's far side. The U.S. still can not match the weight-lifting capacity of Russia's satellite booster...