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...Japan's brilliant, courtly central banker, Governor Masamichi Yamagiwa of the Bank of Japan, likes to relax by playing go-a, Japanese war game in which he astounds opponents with his daring, unbankerlike moves. But in recent weeks, torn between the need to cool off Japan's overheated boom (TIME, Sept. 8) and Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's fear that any belt-tightening would hurt him politically, Yamagiwa, 60, has shown uncharacteristic indecision. Last week he finally hiked Japan's bank rate from 6.935% to 7.3%, the highest of any industrialized nation. Tighter money, Yamagiwa hopes...
...three Radcliffe buildings which stand on the newly-acquired tract will be torn down to make way for the Education School's new construction. Among the condemned houses are the Radcliffe Tutorial House and the Maintenance Building...
...statistics tell only a small part of the story. With the basic rights of labor firmly secured by law, and after major postwar breakthroughs in the field of pensions, cost-of-living escalators, supplemental unemployment benefits, medical and life insurance, the labor movement seems surfeited by success. It is torn from within by jurisdictional disputes and corruption, and it has been baffled by the problems arising from technological progress...
...Constellation, a four-nation* OAS inspection team flew from Washington to the Dominican Republic last week to decide whether the diplomatic and economic sanctions leveled 13 months ago against the oppressive regime of the late Dictator Rafael Trujillo could now be lifted. What the OAS found was a nation torn by violence. Even before their plane crossed the island's coastline there was trouble...
...Leonard Baskin, 39, Best Foreign Engraver. The youngest of the winners, Baskin is obsessed by the human nightmare which he expresses through torn and tormented figures...