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...addition, New York's Bankers Trust gave up the practice of automatically keeping its prime loan rate slightly above such key money market rates as those for commercial paper and certificates of deposit; other banks may well follow its lead. This will remove some immediate upward pressure on the prime rate, but a greater problem lies ahead. To finance the nation's huge budget deficit, the Treasury will borrow about $9 billion in the next two or three months. Burns has made clear that the Federal Reserve will not grind out money to accommodate a jump in borrowing demand. Thus...
...President's motorcade covered a 50 mile route in three-and-a-half hours; that Captain William Keith of the New York State Police estimated the number of people who had turned out to see the President and Mrs. Nixon at 364,000, a figure that was later revised upward to the chagrin of veteran reporters; and that the President and Mrs. Nixon stood waving in their open-topped limousine at most points along the route where there enough people to wave...
...developing the idea that doorbells ring when no one is at the door is not really sustained by the cast. And the climactic scene--in which the two couples march ground in a circle screaming. "It's not that way it's over here," and jabbing their index fingers upward with increasing speed--is ridiculous rather than absurd...
...eroding. "People are bringing the shutters down from their attics and putting them back on their windows," Updike writes. His story ends: "The downtown seems to be tightening like a fist, a glistening clot of apoplectic signs and sunstruck stalled automobiles. And the Hillies are slowly withdrawing upward. ..They are getting ready for our attack...
...upward revision in the interest rate charged to students receiving Harvard loans caused some misunderstandings this week, but the higher rate represents only a redirection of goals in the University's progressive new loan program...