Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solution outlined by Mosteller's group is two-fold. First, the Houses would buy time on their own consoles nightly from 8 p.m. to midnight for relatively unrestricted undergraduate use. Second, the Faculty would allocate a separate fund, to be administered through the departments, for course work involving greater input and therefore requiring...
...President may, of course, opt for some sort of sharp escalation early next year to give the illusion that peace is on the way. But it is unlikely that the nation, as a whole, would buy such a performance. It is the Republicans who are exploiting Mr. Johnson's real vulnerability and if their purposely ambiguous pitch for peace sways a majority, they might even begin to think of non-military steps...
Died. Arthur O. Dietz, 74, pioneer in auto installment financing and longtime (1939-60) president of Commercial Investment Trust, nation's largest sales-finance company. More than anyone else, Dietz made "Buy Now, Pay Later" a U.S. byword-starting in 1919 when he set up the auto sales division of C.I.T. to finance car sales, a development that put a rich man's luxury into a workingman's budget and brought C.I.T. to a loan volume of $4.6 billion annually by his retirement...
There was no doubt about the guilt of the boys involved. The parents of one had reported to Cheseboro that the boys were pooling weekly allowances to buy pot. Confronted by their head master, all confessed, and all 14 were sent packing. Six other "peripheral" users were placed on probation...
...didn't catch," said Cheseboro, but if so, he added, "you can be sure their activity has been cut down." It was probably never very much to begin with. Boys at the Hun School are supposed to get only $5 a week allowance, which would only buy some ten cigarettes...