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...Abolish the Holidays. Heating up the war anew, the Viet Cong opened a barrage of almost daily attacks, concentrating on the rice-rich Mekong Delta south of Saigon. Boldly, an 800-man guerrilla force ambushed an infantry battalion near Mocay, shot down a T-28 fighter plane that swooped to the rescue -killing its American pilot-and simultaneously lobbed .81-mm. Red Chinese-made mortars into Mocay itself. But the government got in its own licks, several times counterattacked with refreshing aggressiveness. On a forested ridge near the Laotian border, troops overran a Viet Cong staging camp for infiltrators coming...
...reduce the commissions that investors pay for trading in "odd lots"-fewer than 100 shares; 2) formally order the Exchange's stock "specialists" to buy when stocks are dropping and sell when they are rising sharply in order to soften price swings; and 3) severely restrict or abolish the Exchange's floor traders, who buy and sell for their own accounts...
...first target, the SEC shrewdly picked the easiest-the floor traders, whom it tried to abolish as far back as 1945. It argues that the traders unfairly benefit from inside information and have no responsibility to the public...
...issue, of course, is not how to make the price supports work--with other segments of the Triple Subsidy tagging along--but whether to have them at all. Here the answer must be clear: abolish them. They have kept the marginal cotton producer on his tiny, impoverished farm at a subsistence level while mainly aiding the big fellow; they have distorted the consumer's dollar in the marketplace by effectively rigging the prices of cotton goods. Here, as in most other agricultural price support programs, it is the low-income farmer and the low-income consumer who are helped...
...Peabody, who tried unsuccessfully last year to abolish the Council, has promised to attend the hearing. At his press conference Friday, Peabody denied reports that he had softened his opposition to the nine-man, elected body...