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...Last week they interrupted Margie's eighth-grade studies (a New York City schoolteacher keeps children in the hospital plugging at their work), used an instrument like poultry shears to cut a rectangular hole in the back of the cast, over the spot where the curve had been sharpest. More X rays showed the new position of the vertebrae, indicated how many would have to be fused...
...third worry is freight carloadings. Last week they were down again, 15.3% below the same week in 1956, for the sharpest drop of the year and the greatest fall since August 1954. Much of the drop was caused by the winter stop in Great Lakes ore shipments ten days earlier than forecast. The key "miscellaneous" category, which includes all manufactured goods and is generally considered a good barometer, slipped only 12.4% below last year, and only 2.8% below the week before, considerably less, say railroaders, than the normal seasonal decline. Total for the year will probably wind up about...
Carloading Crisis. That kind of radical surgery would not cure all the railroad ills. The rails are also being hurt by the drop in freight, which supplies 85% of their income. Last week carloadings dipped 5.4% from the previous week-the sharpest week-to-week drop in three years-and were 12.6% under the same week of 1956. The overall picture was not quite so dark as the week-to-week statistics made it appear. Carloadings have been dropping from the 1956 level for most of this year, but the gap between loadings in 1957 and 1956 has remained steady...
Pointing to such men as Djilas in Yugoslavia and Kolakowski in Poland (TIME, Oct. 14), Salisbury quoted a Warsaw observer: "What the West must remember about this process is that all of this started inside the Communist Party. The sharpest critics are Communists or men closely associated with Communism. The process of evolution or revolution is occurring within the Communist movement because that is where the best minds of these countries have been assembled by force of circumstance." Concludes Salisbury: "The Communist myth in Eastern Europe, never strongly established, seems broken beyond repair. This becomes apparent when even the writers...
...prices, they moved in for the rebound. Some confidence was also gained by President Eisenhower's decision to make a series of speeches on U.S. strength and by hints of a possible easing in the Fed's restrictive policies. Up shot the market at midweek in the sharpest single day's point gain since 1929, recouping the losses of the two previous days...