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...stated is an advantage, not only as a piece of skillful maneuvering in an election year, but because it will give him greater freedom later "to fit the punishment to the crime." For this reason, the President's unclarified commitment--provided he does not fail to act in a pinch--is a masterstroke of diplomacy--while saying nothing definitely, his meaning is clear...
...NICKEL PINCH will be eased by more metal from the Government stockpile. After diverting 12 million Ibs. during the first quarter, the Office of Defense Mobilization will divert another 18 million Ibs. in the second quarter...
...middle class pocketbook. Lower-middle class families are already resigned to making sacrifices and can also obtain scholarships; upper class families can absorb an additional bill without losing more than a few coupons. But the two-car family which has peculiar demands upon its savings gets caught in the pinch which has already hit the slightly less prosperous family. Unless both the scale and theory of scholarship aid are revised, financial aid officers are likely to continue looking askance at pleas from the so-called middle-middles, suggesting that they could sell the electric dishwasher or forgo the long summer...
...COPPER PINCH will be eased by a large-scale U.S. mining expansion in Chile. In a $100 million program, Anaconda Copper will spend $53 million to get its newly discovered Indio Muerto mines into production, expects them to add 100,000 tons of refined copper to the free world's annual production. The company will also increase production another 55,000 tons at two present mines...
Then your fairy godfather over here came through solidly as he always does. "Goa?" he said. "That's a Portuguese province." And, of course that made things just hunky-dory with you because you could say some nice things about Kashmir and come off top dog after all. pinch and you got a nice fat contract to build those Burmese a dam. That was a fine present, wasn...