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From eighth grade to high school and now into college, the educational expectancy of U.S. children has been expanding ever upward. Now the pressure is mounting to extend schooling two more years at the other end. Last month the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association proposed that "all children should have the opportunity to go to school at public expense beginning at the age of four." President Johnson promptly endorsed the idea, as did HEW Secretary John Gardner. With the Federal Government that committed, says one Washington educator, "the question is not whether -but when-it will come...
...apart, lengthening the jawbone but leaving a space where the lower cut was made. Where nonalignment is too great to be corrected by an operation on the lower jaw alone, Dr. Obwegeser may move all or part of the upper jaw. With remarkable versatility, he can even move it upward or downward, sometimes removing small pieces of bone to achieve the desired repositioning (see diagram) and using the chips to space out the lower jaw. Bone from a receding chin may be removed and replaced at the front...
...Thus the board has little room to tighten money further without kicking up the discount rate once again. That is a step which a majority of the board opposes, partly because it would stir up a political tempest, and partly because quite a few financial men recognize that the upward pressures on the economy are easing...
...London, Leeds or Liverpool, the average person was hardly aware that anything was wrong. Food prices stabilized after an initial upward flurry as supplies from the Continent continued to arrive in foreign ships. Unable to export for lack of ships, British automakers simply upped their production of right-hand-drive models for the home market, and British buyers snapped up nearly all they could produce...
...Republic Steel: "A tax increase at this time may prove to be not only unnecessary but also injurious to continuous sound growth. The nation has not yet had sufficient time to feel the full deflationary effects of the increased rates on borrowing, high social security taxes, the upward adjustment in the schedules for tax withholdings and the renewal of certain excise taxes...