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...national eye (more than 125,000 have been sold), Ingram knew that he had at least one political party under his cap in 1956. This, combined with his newest creation, a visored French Foreign Legion type, scheduled to make its debut at fall football games, prompts Ingram to predict that his sideline will sell 50 million caps, gross...
...bringing farmers higher prices. All grades and weights slaughtered in Chicago last week brought a top price of $26.27 compared to $22.50 in the same week a year ago. The prices are up because lower production and premature marketing have resulted in a short supply of beef. Stockyard experts predict that the price trend will continue upward into November...
...Engineer? With a $4,000,000 budget, the E.T.S. has made up tests for law and medical schools, the armed-services academies, for the Knights of Columbus, the American Board of Surgery and the National Science Foundation. It is now trying to find ways to predict what sort of person will make a good salesman, a good minister or an engineer. It has brought new order to the nation's various scholarship programs, and to a large extent, it has eliminated the advantages that the private secondary schools once had in preparing for the old. more predictable college boards...
...Wearing his stern concepts of amateurism like a chip on his shoulder, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage promoted a new addition to the Olympic oath: "I am now, and intend to remain, an amateur." He seemed surprised to learn that there might be athletes who could not predict their futures and could not sign in good conscience. As complaints poured in, Brundage tried to backtrack: "There is no desire to interfere with those who intend to pursue a legitimate career in physical education, sport administration, press, radio, etc." Just when aspiring pros became illegitimate, Brundage...
...through it. They can measure accurately a cloud's altitude -a matter of critical importance, since the highest storm clouds are usually the most violent and the most likely to produce cloudbursts and tornadoes. Through their ability to see raindrops before they fall, they will enable weathermen to predict flash floods; when clouds are observed dropping heavy rain on a mountain watershed, the people in the valley below can be warned to take to the hills...