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When it was established after the Dow demonstration, the Council was charged primarily with formulating a recruitment policy so that the University could avert the kind of calamitous situation that evolved from the previous policy. SFAC held a number of meetings, discussed a number of issues, encountered President Pusey, and finally, just before it became a dead issue, started to discuss recruitment...
...avert those twin perils, said the globally respected central banker, the U.S. must cut its budget deficit in the fiscal year starting July 1 from a prospective $20 billion to less than $8 billion. Achieving such a reduction would require not only prompt enactment of the Administration-backed 10% income-tax surcharge but budget cuts at least as large as anything Congress has proposed. Moreover, said Martin, he has already told President Johnson that unless the U.S. slashes its balance of payments deficit, that problem will inexorably lead to a world devaluation of currencies. "This would...
...most part, only the less adept or mobile were caught. Seeing police take a stance of calculated restraint, adults joined in the pillage. Often cops stood by without hindering looters. In New York City, lone patrolmen sometimes were ordered to ignore the plundering and avert traffic backups that could make riot scenes more perilous. In Pittsburgh, one eager bargain seeker stocked up a shopping cart at a looted supermarket, rolled it out into an alley, bumped into a cop and asked blandly: "Is this the way to the checkout counter...
...club to purge many government functionaries and encouraged criticism of Gomulka in the press. They are finding, however, that the wily Gomulka, 63, who spent five years in prison for his anti-Stalinist stand before becoming party boss in 1956, is no pushover. Last week Gomulka managed to avert a showdown with his enemies while placing two of his own men in top positions...
...cost save that in the substance of his cause, we now must, as he did, speak truth to power. Do not establish a national holiday on his birthday or issue stamps in his memory, or make any other gestures on this order. These will not even avert the riots we fear. Do not do these, unless you--unless we--are really prepared to act out the content of his life, the explicit politics of his religion...