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...hours later, as a seagoing tug moved in to tow the crippled tanker to port, Santa Rosa, with Valchem's toppled stack perched on her prow, steamed for New York. Before she docked at 8:15 p.m., dozens of grateful passengers had signed a testimonial praising Santa Rosa's crew...
Among advocates of more federal spending, the figure 5% has become a sort of magic number of yearly economic growth. "Our economy," says Walter Reuther, "should be expanding, at the very least, at a rate of 5% a year." Average yearly rate since the 1870s: 3%. In their swelling stack of pamphlets, proponents of 5%-a-year growth do not argue the realism of their goal in hard economic terms. As authority for it, they point out that last spring a Rockefeller Brothers Fund panel, sprinkled with big businessmen, urged a 5% growth rate...
Paternal Solicitude. Trimble followed up his story. Thumbing through a three-inch stack of House pay records for January, he broke the news that Iowa's freshman Democratic Representative Steven V. Carter was paying his 19-year-old son $11,873.26 a year as his public-relations assistant, although the lad was also a part-time pre-law student at George Washington University (TIME, March 2). When House leaders brushed off his stories ("They kept telling me everyone runs his own business"), Trimble spent a weekend in Iowa gathering outraged reactions to Carter's paternal solicitude. Iowa...
...worth of its equipment one man can raise 7,000 hogs a year with only half-day help. The Pork-liner is a hog's country club. The little pigs begin with private rooms, to avoid being stepped on by the sow. A hydraulic lift is used to stack the cages six rows high. Manure falls through the cage bottoms and is mechanically removed to be used as fertilizer. In their whole lives, until they are made into ham, sausages and bacon, the hogs never know weight-killing struggle...
Yale is the choice to capture the team title, with Army, Manhattan, and sentimental favorite Villanova in challenging positions. The Yale two-mile relay team of Jim Stack, Ed Slowik, Bill Legat, and Tommy Carroll won its race in last week's AAU championships with the amazing time...