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...message of congratulation; from assembled speakers came paeans of praise. But as the tributes converged on his rumpled head, Maurice Ewing, 53, most likely was thinking about a ridge in the floor of the Pacific which, according to one of his theories, should have a crack running along its peak...
...economy neared a historic peak during the first quarter: a half-trillion-dollar gross national product. While Government economists were still tallying the final figures. Commerce Secretary Frederick H. Mueller said last week that the total value of goods and services produced in the quarter that ended this week "reached the annual rate of close to half a trillion dollars...
...February dropped off one point from the January record to 110% of the 1957 average, the new base year that the Federal Reserve Board is using. Industrial production in February was 167% of the old 1947-49 average. While output of business equipment and materials was maintained at peak rates, production of consumer goods declined below the record January level...
...with what he had. Somehow, Hoess did-and he is as methodically informative as a suburbanite fighting crab grass as he discusses the relative merits of poison gasses and the superiority of threeretort crematory ovens to four-retort ovens. Hoess remembers with almost nostalgic pride a date of peak efficiency when the camp gassed and cremated "rather more than 9,000" in a 24-hour period...
...Princeton's graduate school. But its recruiting setup now spans the nation; 3,000 of the 4,000 fellowships given so far have been awarded since the Ford grant. On U.S. campuses today, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship is fast becoming a domestic version of the Rhodes Scholarship-a peak of academic distinction...