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...gloom, the latest production estimates from the Federal Reserve showed a three-point drop to 130 on the index in February, a total six-point decline since the first of the year. All told, industrial production was down 17 points from the 1956 peak, a slightly bigger drop than during the 1953-54 recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Morning After | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...Faculty Committee on Athletics last night approved a three-point procedure for the restoration of misplaced athletic ticket books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Ticket Book To Cost Student $5 | 10/8/1957 | See Source »

...Packers) missed the extra point, the All-Stars had to settle for a 6-0 lead. The Giants settled for something more: crack performances by two of their oldest, saltiest veterans. Ben Agajanian, 38, Giant kicking master for seven years, stepped delicately onto the muddy field to score a three-point field goal. In the second quarter, Quarterback Charley Conerly, 33, master of the wet ball, passed the pros into a 10-6 lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Night School | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...Republicans from the sidelines while awaiting answers to a budget questionnaire that he had mailed out to 39,000 Texans. The replies, plus an Easter visit home, convinced him that economy sentiment was running strong. He saw a big political issue in the making, and he set his three-point party line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sharp Touch with a Wedge | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Science in the Defiles. SETAF stakes its job in a three-point pattern. Headquarters, stationed in ancient Verona, and Task Forces Alfa and Bravo,* in Vicenza, are assigned to defend Italy's northeastern frontier (Austria and Yugoslavia); about 150 miles to the southwest, at the Italian port of Livorno, is Task Force Sierra, which supplies Alfa and Bravo with everything from carbines to carefully shrouded atomic warheads. If war comes, Alfa and Bravo can take aim on or fan out into the painstakingly mapped passes and defiles of the nearby Alps with astonishing mobility. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Fair Verona: 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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