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...family vacations at Ausable Lakes in the Adirondacks, he is indefatigable. He rises to fish at 4 a.m., drags his family on walks up Iron Mountain. "After a hike with him," says chestnut-haired Ellen McCloy, "we all come home on our hands and knees." The McCloy family circle, in the yellow brick Georgetown house, includes Grandmother Anna McCloy, now 83, young John, 11, Ellen, 7, a droopy-eared beagle named Judy and an affectionate boxer named Punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: We Know the Russians | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...return for the resulting increase in trade--is an ingenious answer to the high cost of learning. It was tried out last year at the University of Buffalo with some success, and has been instituted in 17 other areas all over the country. What with the new tuition hike and the financial pressures of living under the G.I. bill, any good plan for saving deserves a fair tryout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Purchase Card Failure | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...years. His House leaders were lucky to get a bill which limited control to 15 months. The measure gave state, county and city lawmakers the right to end controls altogether in their areas. The Senate Banking Committee went on from there. The Senate bill would permit an automatic 10% hike in rents within the next year and guarantee landlords a "fair return on values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Friends, Old Enemies | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Since most teaching fellows work halftime as section instructors, advisers, and tutors, the raise will only represent a hike from $1,500 to $1,600 in a great majority of cases, Buck explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teaching Fellows Get Salary Raise | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...other reasons for this latest, and, according to the Provost, last hike, there is no way that anyone not intimately familiar with the educational policy and the financial problems of the Provost can really analyze it. Students, alumni, and Faculty alike must take his word for it. The important thing now is what the Faculty and Arts and Sciences should do with the freedom which this extra money will give them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The $600 Question | 3/8/1949 | See Source »

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