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Democrats have a slightly wider choice among Senator Estee Kefauver, Senator Robert S. Kerr, Vice-President Alben W. Barkley, Senator Richard B. Russell, Senator Brien McMahon, W. Averell Harriman, Governor G. Mennen Williams, and Governor Adlai E. Stevenson. Stevenson's name is included since the ballots were printed before he withdrew from the race...
Today, says Jacquetta Hawkes, Britons are not so lucky. "The fatal discovery of Portland cement [no kin to Portland stone] was made about a century ago. I am aware that steel and concrete building can be good, that it puts all kinds of possibilities before us-such as houses wider at the top than at the bottom . . . [But] it represents that terrifying new phenomenon, man mechanized and living cut off from his land, from the rock out of which he has come...
...with sloping hoods that give them greater road vision than many other U.S. cars. The new models have 25% more window space than last year's and the widest seats on the road (64½-in. rear seat, 65-in. front), although the body is only 1 inch wider...
Iron Curtain carries no ads, is distributed free to editors, educators and others engaged in gathering and spreading information. Though the Committee expects to keep circulation around 5,000, il hopes that reprints of its stories will give them a much wider circulation...
Fourth, the rising prices, which to the average student means a little more scrimping, have more extensive implications for the College. Inflation has cut deeply into scholarship endowment income at a time when the University is trying to expand scholarship aid to bring in a wider variety of students. "This is of first importance for the quality of the future Harvard's student body and for Harvard's role as a democratic national educational institution open to talent wherever found," says the Conant report...