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...long-standing difficulties of the Eisenhower Administration was its inability to persuade Congress to abolish the 4¼% interest ceiling on long-term (over five years) Government securities. The Kennedy Administration last week got around the problem deftly. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Attorney General Robert Kennedy ruled that it was legally permissible for the Government to offer long-term bonds at a discount provided the coupon interest rate did not exceed 4¼%. Thus, a long-term $1,000 bond could be sold for $950, with the $50 discount in effect boosting the yield...
...minority report of the Student Council Committee on Educational Policy will seek to improve, rather than abolish Sophomore Standing. The majority report last month recommended elimination of the Soph Standing program...
...about to serve a year each in jail for contempt of Congress pleaded last night for a public crusade to restore individual rights under the First Amendment, and to abolish the House UnA-merican Activities Committee...
...Administration has grown fond of the Sophomore Standing program, so fond that University Hall is likely to greet with great reserve any action to abolish it. The Student Council Committee that actually did recommend abolition realized well enough that the apparently more valuable and certainly more expedient course would have been to cry for improvement of the program's weaknesses...
After months of deliberation and haggling, the Student Council Committee on Educational Policy has come up with a sensible, but probably quixotic, proposal: Abolish Sophomore Standing...