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...Administration to the Small Business Administration, have taken on important financial duties independent of the FRB. As a result, some economists fear that the nation's many credit operations are not well enough controlled or coordinated, could get out of hand, and turn the boom into a disastrous bust...
...picture shapes up, therefore, this team looks stronger than last year's, especially in the number of strong events, and lack of potential "bust" events. Last year's squad was decimated by injuries, but managed to rise to the heights. The question is whether or not the present varsity could do the same under the same circumstances, if, as everyone hopes not, it should have...
...Busting his Britches. The new Senator hustled himself onto the first plane to Washington, received his Army discharge there in a single afternoon. He was a strange sight. He had put on weight in the Army (the harder he works, the more he eats and the rounder he gets), and now, with no time to waste on clothes-buying, he tried to stuff himself back into his prewar civvies. For months, until Helen Knowland finally took charge and ordered him some new suits, Washington held its breath in anticipation of the occasion when California's young Republican Senator William...
...ideals, it is a fine organization, but it would be far better if it were physically located in the Soviet Union, where a free exchange of this type would be a novel experience for the population. As an arbiter in maintaining law and order, the U.N. is a howling bust. Moral indignation has saved few people from a firing squad...
...Game," the almost always spirited Army-Navy scrap for the service championship, was a big bust. Army fumbled away chances to run up a score; Navy scuttled its own attack while its sloppy defense did little more than watch the soldiers stop themselves. The game ended, as it should have, in a 7-7 tie, and then, as it should have, the Naval Academy refused an invitation to the Cotton Bowl...