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...Cambridge Planning Board is studying methods to obtain amendments to State Zoning Enabling statutes which require that educational institutions be exempt from local zoning restrictions on building...
Last week the geisha trade suffered yet another blow. With the government beginning to look into the once-secret and tax-exempt expense accounts that businessmen used for geisha parties, 20 of Japan's leading firms issued an ultimatum to their employees: no more parties, except for gullible foreigners. "Japan," says one oldtime patron of the Sumida houses, "is the land of the vanishing geisha. In the end they will wind up as purely tourist attractions-like the Navajo Indians." The plain fact is that the stylized coquetry of the classic geisha is no longer fashionable. "Frankly," said...
Shedding less useful light than a firefly at noon, Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, 68, long used to watching his hirelings clobber the Washington Senators, flummoxed singlehanded a different sort of Senator with his favorite weapon: syntax. As a witness before a subcommittee hearing testimony on a bill to exempt baseball from antitrust action, Stengel was asked by Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver why the bill should be passed. "Well," said Casey, clarifying things, "you can retire with an annuity at 50, and I further state that I am not a member of that plan. You'd think, my goodness...
...thoughtful businessmen want to do away with renegotiation entirely. Rather, they would like to see the act amended to exempt incentive contracts and to make it mandatory to show contractors all data and information used as a basis for determining excessive profits. With such amendments, business might be able to live with the Renegotiation...
...Both bills 1) provide for the U.S. to guarantee private loans to the rails (the Senate set a $700 million limit, but the House set no ceiling), 2) give greater power to the Interstate Commerce Commission to reduce service on money-losing routes. 3) tighten up on truckers now exempt from ICC rate regulations. Since chances seemed good that a relief bill would become law within a month, almost all major rail stocks advanced last week. The Dow-Jones rail index closed at the year's high of 119.21, up 19.32 points from the low in January...