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...inch its prices up. For 1964, few at the moment look for more than just a gradual rise in prices-nothing close to a spiraling inflation. But there are stiff wage negotiations due next year, and there is some danger that basic raw material prices may move sharply upward. Either condition could touch off price changes that would be felt sharply by the housewife...
Most important, the maritime law doctrine that the seas are open to the use of all mankind explains how to avoid the insoluble problem of extending into space the exclusive right of each nation to the air above it. Sovereignty extends upward as far as the hunter's weapons can reach, suggested Dutch Jurist Hugo Grotius in 1623, and allowing for the extra zip of modern musketry, today's pragmatic solution turns out to be much the same...
...canvases because they do not end where his paint does. Some of his best adventures in paint occur close to the edges, where colorful jigsaw puzzle pieces are chopped off as if they had turned the corner into a new dimension. Other oils seem to spread relentlessly outward and upward like aerial photography of an erupting volcanic landscape...
...certain that this will not be the last time we shall be reading about Superintendent Gross. He is headed upward. He has successfully reinvigorated the Pittsburgh school system and is on his way toward renovating the New York school system-a most difficult task. But he will overcome ... A real possibility for the future: Calvin Gross, U.S. Commissioner of Education...
...protect them from going too far out on a limb. Loans for stock purchases have jumped 43% in the past 16 months to $6.9 billion. While this is little more than 1% of the value of the shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the Fed figured that the upward trend meant it was time for tightening, and felt that the market was strong enough to take the margin increase...