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Greedy Economy. Butler's amber light had obviously not been enough to slow down Britain's course towards inflation. Last month Britain's gold and dollar reserves dropped to a figure lower than at any time since 1952. Instead of closing, the trade gap was widening alarmingly. Vital coal production, which had dropped 2.000,000 tons last year, was still dropping. Harold Macmillan. the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, said ruefully: "One of the Prince Regent's physicians earned a certain notoriety, though not perhaps very large fees, by telling his royal patient that all that...
...created a huge new demand for imported products. As a result, Sweden ran a $50 million trade deficit last year, twice as much as in 1954. Denmark, on the other hand, held its imports down and boosted exports $70 million last year, thereby cut its $200 million trade gap to $135 million. Yet Denmark is still having trouble. Only a fortnight ago, for example, the retail price index jumped five points...
...goal of the Council is to "fill the gap between those interested in debating and those who can compete for positions on the Varsity Debate Council." Under the new system, there will be a ten-week round of practice debates in which each House will compete five times. At the end of this period, each house will pick its best team to debate in a final tourney scheduled to take place in the last week of April...
Toward the end of the first half the first half the Crimson showed signs of making a fight out of the game, and closed the one-time 12 point gap to three. Actually, it could have been only one at the half, but Phil Haughey batted out a Bob Barnett lay-up that was already in, but not through, the cords. The Orange led, 39 to 36, at the half...
...Stop-Gap Plan...