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Finally, the Committee should seriously consider increasing the number of recommended and suggested charities. If each of these lists were double--making about 25 charities in all--a wider range of organizations would be presented. Although each would inevitably receive less money, total donations would probably be greater, because each student would be likely to find a charity of personal importance. Then, the Combined Charities Drive might become more than an annual ritual of conscience-purging...
Patriotic Duty. Credit cards have grown steadily, opening ever wider possibilities of pay-later living for businessmen, travelers and impulse buyers, who now owe a fancy $656 million. The cards can now be used like cash at most airports, hotels, restaurants and shops, and credit-card companies are scrambling to arrange more uses. The 1,250,000 holders of Diners' Club cards can charge an African safari, and credit cards are now used to get haircuts, buy theater tickets and rent mink coats. The Carte Blanche card can be flashed as an instant credit reference...
...movement between the halves of Berlin. Last week Ulbricht's press agency announced that beginning Nov. 2, some 3,000,000 elderly East Germans will be allowed to cross the Wall for annual four-week visits to relatives in the West, and negotiations are nearly complete for yet wider visitor exchanges between the two Germanys...
...tyranny of oils is over. For the collector, the opportunity to buy graphic art, numbered and signed by the artist, presents an economical way to own original art. For the artist who has caught onto the million ways of making graphics with new materials, the horizon is even wider...
...voicing U.S. indignation at what he called "this outrage" by the Communists, Johnson carefully avoided any sound of saber rattling. "Our response for the present," he said, "will be limited and fitting. We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider...