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Carter is stringent in his music. But on the inequities of the musical life he is capable of arias and cadenzas. "Do you know how much I received in royalties the first year from the LP of Concerto for Orchestra? I'll tell you how much-$50. I get paid $3,000 to write a piece of music. My publisher has to spend $10,000 to get the thing ready for publication. When it comes out, I find that it has hundreds of errors in it. I send him an errata...
Slightly less stringent controls affect banking and hydroelectric power. Hydroelectric plants may be developed only by American citizens or corporations. Such companies, if incorporated in the U.S., can be owned by foreigners, however. Foreign-bank subsidiaries in the U.S. are denied membership in the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Banks incorporated in the U.S., though, can join both federal programs even if they are foreign-owned...
...laws, now only slightly more stringent than West Germany's, could grow tougher, whatever economic experts may recommend. Some legislators are sure to offer new restrictions this year. Meanwhile, a law enacted by Congress last year requires a new, comprehensive Government survey of foreign ownership in American enterprises. In response, the Treasury Department has ordered a study that may lead to further federal regulations. The Government could even try to use the hypothetical power of expropriation. Similar action was taken on trading-with-the-enemy grounds against some German companies during World War II. Nowadays, the Supreme Court would...
...wants oil imports chopped by 50% and a strict gasoline-rationing program much like the one in force during World War II (see box page 14). Though Energy Czar Rogers Morton, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and some leading Democrats, including Senator Henry Jackson, have been ardent supporters of stringent conservation measures, none of them have gone so far as to call for all-out rationing...
True, in some ways the University feels the effects of the deteriorating economy. Rooms in dorms get less heat than they once did, and Widener cannot buy as many periodicals as in past years. Stringent budget cuts may result in a thinner course catalogue than students have been accustomed to, and less money is available for financial...