Word: boarding
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...candidate. His politics are symbolized by the itchy trigger finger, and his judicial philosophy is summed up in a tidy homily: "You can't serve papers on a rat." Grousing around a courthouse, he comes on Mattie (Kim Darby), a girl as flat and solid as an oak board. She talks Rooster into giving her his children's rate for catching killers...
...Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which outlawed racial segregation in the public schools. Separate schools for Negroes were "inherently unequal," ruled the court, because the system generates feelings of inferiority in the black children "that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." Brown helped to prepare public opinion for a long series of civil rights bills and later court rulings that enforced laws against discrimination in voting, public accommodations and housing...
...Federal Reserve Board moved again last week to curtail the credit supply by proposing reserve requirements for Eurodollars. Board members want to stem the flood of those dollars that banks have been importing from European branches by the billions and then lending out. The Federal Reserve has misread the economy twice in the past three years and has prematurely expanded credit. It is not likely to do so again until the signs are unmistakably clear that inflation has been reversed. The latest readings of the consumer price index and the leading indicators suggest that what the Federal Reserve...
There was no excessive jubilation as yet in the White House, no cheering in the ornate board room of the Federal Reserve. But last week there were some promising signals that the momentum of inflation may be slowing. Policymakers-who have waited with growing impatience for the classic devices of high taxes and tight money to take effect -at last had some cause for optimism...
Such candor is required by Federal Reserve Board Regulation "Z," which takes effect July 1. The 59-page regulation tells what stores, banks, finance companies, auto dealers and other cred itors must do to comply with the Truth in Lending Act that Congress passed last year. Among other things, the consumer must be informed in advance of the exact amount of any loan or credit, including insurance premiums, any excess of an installment price over a cash price and the exact length of time he has to pay. He must also be told the precise annual interest charge. In most...