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...present estimates, the uniform rate would be set at approximately $220-260. This would represent a sizable rent increase for the student who just manages to come to Harvard independent of financial aid, and lives in a $150 room. It would be unrealistic to hope that some sort of blanket financial aid could be given to all the people for whom the new rate would constitute a serious financial problem. Although the sums involved are of considerable importance to individual students, they are small enough so that they may well escape the consideration of the financial aid office, especially...
...departments turn loose an army of 19,000 eager carrier boys to home-deliver fully 85% of the Sunday papers. In all, the Cowles brothers have a 275,000-square-mile hegemony: the Des Moines Register (circ. 220,221), Tribune (circ. 128,824) and Sunday Register (circ. 515,599) blanket Iowa like the state's fertile black topsoil; the Minneapolis Tribune (circ. 208,236), Star (circ. 290,960) and Sunday Tribune (circ. 630,035) sell throughout Minnesota and North and South Dakota, cut a swath through western Wisconsin...
...talks opened on a note of extreme optimism with the Soviets' blanket proposal to end all nuclear testing, immediately and forever. The simplicity and directness of the Russians' approach to the problems of disarmament has definite propaganda value, but, as U.S. diplomats were quick to point out, it ignores all the technicalities of enforcement. The U.S. counter-proposal asked for a suspension of nuclear testing on a year to year basis, with some kind of inspection plan to enforce the test ban. It was on this point that the talks stalled, and the old suspicions appeared on both sides...
...last spring in a trade publication that his power mowers, which he priced in ads at $154.95, could be sold at $74.95-and the retailer would make the usual profit. A watchmaker preticketed a lady's wristwatch at $200, a Detroit store sold the watch for $17.00. A blanket manufacturer offered retailers $24.95-list blankets that a retailer sold at $14.95; comparative shopping showed that they were not worth $10.00. One major mattress maker now gives his retailers a choice of three different list prices to be sewn to the ticking. Which preticket the merchant chooses depends...
News censorship, such as that which occured at LIU, is not the only form of restrictive action taken against the free expression of student opinion. The second instance of restraint involves the broader issue of casting a blanket of silence around controversial speakers, by not allowing them to appear on college campuses. Such was the action taken by the Administrative Council of the Board of Higher Education of New York to prohibit persons convicted under the Smith Act from speaking at the city colleges...