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Acting Dean Mason, chairman of the Committee on Educational Policy, said that the proposal "would involve a very serious change in what the Faculty considers a proper program for undergraduates." He also said that no action would be taken this spring because "the CEP would want a longer time to deliberate on the issue...
White House economists nevertheless maintain that the economy is performing close to their expectations. They contend that it normally takes about six months before monetary and fiscal measures begin to affect prices. "We must recognize the narrow social tolerances within which economic policy must operate," says Chairman Paul McCracken of the Council of Economic Advisers. "The cold-turkey treatment of sharp deflation is not available in the modern world." If the spring fever proves resistant, the Government's cures should, along with the anticipated seasonal slack, begin to show some results by summer...
...force open the Japanese market in two ways. U.S. automen want Japan to lower such nontariff barriers as commodity sales taxes and road-use taxes based on car size. More important, they insist that Tokyo should ease its severe restrictions against foreign investment in Japanese manufacturing firms. General Motors Chairman James Roche recently called Japan "the most notorious" of the world's industrial countries for this form of protectionism. Veiled threats of retaliation-perhaps including import restrictions on Japanese cars-have finally begun to melt Japanese resistance. Both Borg-Warner and Ford are anxious to begin producing automatic transmissions...
Calkins apparently had that idea in mind already. Eight days later he was named chairman of a 22-member citizens' committee in Cleveland. The committee, called PACE (Plan for Action by Citizens in Education), said its purpose was to investigates Cleveland's educational woes and suggest ways in which local citizens could help solve the problems...
...Calkins appeared before the education subcommittee again and urged them to send more money into the cities' vocational education programs. And less than six weeks ago, Calkins--serving as chairman of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education--hit the same theme, saying that job training classes in schools would save the country millions of dollars that it now spends on remedial training for unemployable adults...