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Captain Larry Johnson, who normally uses the foil, may fence epee today to bolster the squad. The epee team could tak only one of nine matches against Penn but must come through with several victories today...
These extra Council gimmicks do get publicity and perhaps even bolster the prestige of its members but--more important--they hinder the proper function of the Council; to devote its efforts to pressuring various parts of the community in the name of College undergraduates...
Kennedy promised to do some more by executive action. He would put through a depressed-areas food-stamp plan, cut FHA mortgage rates (from 5¼% to 5½% to bolster the housing market, pay out 1961 veterans' insurance dividends ahead of schedule, and speed up the letting of Government contracts. Cost of the package: something less than $5 billion-not much more than the $4 billion rise in cash outlays that Dwight Eisenhower had projected for fiscal...
Nine or ten half courses for next year and the revival of English I two years from now will bolster the English Department's now-slim list of offerings for undergraduates. But students this spring will still have to choose from the smallest selection of middle group English courses in recent years...
...plant is the newest example of the Irish government's successful campaign to lure in foreign industries to bolster the island's faltering economy. Principally agricultural, Ireland has provided so few jobs that each year as many as 40,000 Irishmen immigrate, mainly to the U.S. and Canada, to find work. Two years ago, the government put together an appealing package. To the foreign industrialist, it grants a ten-year tax exemption on export profits and offers to pay the full cost of training the workers (average wage: $29 for a 44-hr, week), plus...