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With a price rise, steel profits in 1961 would obviously be even better. But given the inflationary impact of a price boost in steel, many a consumer-and many a businessman-hoped that the industry would pay attention to the warning delivered by President Kennedy in his second State of the Union message last week: "As recovery progresses, there will be temptations to seek unjustified price and wage increases. These we cannot afford...
Last week U.S.C. launched what may be the most overdue "master plan" fund drive in the land. Passing the hat for $107 million over the next two decades, U.S.C. seeks a fast infusion of $30 million in four years and a 50% boost in endowment. From now on, vowed energetic President Norman H. Topping, a physician who took over in late 1958, the prescription for U.S.C. is "excellence with vigor and without compromise...
...business upturn last week came the first signs of a turn-around in the Kennedy Administration's economic policies. To give the economy a quick boost, the Administration had considered throwing its support behind a bill sponsored by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark to provide state and local governments with $500 million in federal grants for such projects as repairing roads and sewers, building schools and libraries. Chief advocate of the bill inside the Administration was Presidential Economic Adviser Heller. But Heller's enthusiasm has been countered by Treasury Secretary Dillon's argument that with...
Implicitly, the book assumes that orthodox problems of strategy are receiving plenty of attention--in a sense, strategy can take care of itself--but that arms control, the necessary complement to strategy, needs a boost...
With time getting short, repeated wild passing by the Indians showed signs of Dartmouth panic. But at 5:50 an Indian shot nipped the nets, making it 8 to 6. Midfielder Joe Prahl and a Dartmouth attackman traded tallies in ten seconds to boost the score to 9 to 7 with less than five minutes remaining...