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...Gracious living as Radcliffe now defines it has fallen from favor. Many a Faculty member shuns the Quad at mealtimes, remembering the night he sat transfixed by eight pairs of blank eyes while the girl on his left politely inquired what courses he was teaching this term. Unable to offset the institutional formality, most 'Cliffies would like to abolish it altogether. Once again the sanctioned motive for revision is the desire to entice the Faculty up to Radcliffe. Many 'Cliffies, however, admit private reservations about emulating the free-wheeling discussions they imagine typical of the Harvard Houses...
...have on average been quality improvements." By simply reporting that consumers pay more for goods, the C.P.I, fails to take into account that buyers often get better clothes or more complex cars for their money. Many other economists, including Harvard's Seymour Harris, agree that quality improvements may offset many of the higher prices reported in the index. If the C.P.I.'s upward bias had been corrected properly, Yale's Richard Ruggles told the committee, the index would actually have shown a net decline in the cost of living of 1% or 2% a year over...
Sponsored by Reps. John J. Campbell and John R. Sennott, a bill which would create a committee to study the best possible use of the Bennett St. yards is now pending in the House. To offset civic opposition to the use of so much land by an institution exempt from property taxes, the University has offered in the past to devote part of the site to commercial structures--perhaps a bank, an apartment house, or a parking garage--which would be liable to taxation...
...long awaited tax message to Congress, the President demanded a crackdown on expense-account living as one step in a program designed to raise $1.7 billion in new revenue by correcting the tax structure's "defects and inequities." The additional tax income is counted on to offset a seductive new plan aimed at jogging the slow rate of business investment in new factories and equipment...
...from 27 private collections of such art patrons as David Rockefeller Henry Ford II and Mrs. Marshall Field, the show brings together mostly unfamiliar works, including three Rembrandts. Richly hung against red plush walls in three small rooms and a connecting foyer a wide variety of styles and periods offset each other, inviting fresh appraisals and creating an effect that is intimate and dazzling-like diamonds nestling in velvet More surprising is the mood of the collection: a luminous tranquillity...