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...Treasury last week was "gratified" at the public rush to buy the $3.5 billion worth of short-term securities (TIME, Oct. 6) it floated to raise cash. Largely because of their generous yields, the issues were oversubscribed by more than 100%, and the Treasury was forced to allot securities to buyers...
...Department of History this year will allot to the Masters a certain percentage of its tutors' time for working with non-Honors Seniors in the Houses, Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the Department, said yesterday...
Policeman Kennedy, on the other hand, is against gangs, period. He makes no distinction between boppers and defensives. Two summers ago, after the Youth Board arranged a cool and helped allot turf to Lower East Side Puerto Ricans and Negroes who had shot up two youngsters in a rumble, the commissioner passed on a pointed order to his department: "You shall not enter into treaties, concordats, compacts or agreements of appeasement. You shall meet violence with sufficient force, legally applied, to bring violators to justice. Every man, woman and child has the right to use the streets of this city...
...Rising costs had forced the Department to cut down on its expenditures. After having made every reasonable cut in operating expenses of every sport, we found that we had still exceeded the amount of money which the Corporation would allot to us for the coming year...
...Fresh from raising $27 million in ten years, the University of Notre Dame announced plans to raise another $66.6 million in the next decade, will lay out $27 million to boost faculty salaries by 75%, allot only $18.6 million to new buildings. Meanwhile, the California Institute of Technology started a $16.1 million fund-raising drive to improve salaries, erect new buildings. ¶Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P. Snow, physicist and novelist, mapped the abyss by noting: "I've often asked distinguished English writers...