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...regulations, released yesterday by Thomas E. Crooks '49, director of the Summer School, do impose requirements on the summer clubs slightly more stringent than those existing during the regular academic year. In addition to filing a list of their officers and members, a summer group must also submit "a letter of acceptance" from a Harvard faculty member and "reasonable evidence of ability to meet its financial obligations...
...fact is that acreage allotments and a melange of other schemes have failed to offset the rising trend in cotton yields per acre. It is quite obvious that without stringent marketing quotas, which the Administration has not asked for, the existing price supports will simply help perpetuate a mess...
...destroyers of America's beauty include land speculators, local government and federal agencies. We can improve our plight, Blake says, by demanding "more stringent zoning laws...taking the profit out of land speculation...using tax policy to encourage good building and to discourage bad building, and ridding the country of bureaucrats who have strait-jacketed most government-sub-sidized architecture...
Give It a Walk. This week, as the nation girded itself for its foie du reveillon, the virulent hangover peculiar to Christmas and New Year's, magazines and newspapers were filled with timely tips for the battle-scarred. In addition to stringent post-holiday dieting-for serious crises de foie, doctors recommend total abstinence from meat, eggs, fish, butter, wine, tobacco and coffee-Dr. André Soubiran, writing in the woman's magazine Jours de France, warned readers "your liver needs fresh air," and will invariably be "put in a better humor" if it is taken...
...Sterile Years. World War I, and the era of nervous money and raging nationalism that followed, brought the end to an expansive time for the Rothschilds. Stringent national tax systems ended their practice of keeping a single set of books, and the various branches drifted apart. Death duties sucked millions from their British fortune, and publicly owned banks grew up everywhere to sap their power. In France, the Rothschilds' railroads were taken over by the government. The German and Italian branches of the family had already died out for lack of male heirs. The tired old Rothschilds conspicuously failed...