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...nation's money supply actually declined. If that trend were to continue, efforts by businessmen and consumers to borrow more money than lenders had available would push interest rates higher. One probable result: a greater flow of money out of savings and loan associations, which supply a huge chunk of the mortgage money for new homes, into Government securities and other investments that yield higher interest rates than the savings banks and S and Ls can legally pay. The nation's mutual savings banks lost an estimated $300 million worth of deposits in September, v. a net gain...
...accomplish this only if it can market bonds to the nation's investors, who have lately viewed New York's paper as a pox. To regain their confidence and start putting its finances in order, the city has had to surrender a sizable chunk of home rule to the state...
There the dean's office breaks down the freshmen into several broad categories such as prep or public school background and science or art preferences. Then each takes a chunk of the class and pores over each housing request until they get a feel for their charges. Then they step up to the bargaining table. By trading with other advisers they try to put together as many harmonious rooms as possible, rooms with common interests and traits and little potential conflict...
Charles William Eliot said, "There is an aristocracy to which the sons of Harvard have belonged and, let us hope, will ever aspire to belong." Eliot should know; when he came to Harvard he was related by blood or marriage to sizeable chunk of the faculty and administration. It's not quite so close-knit now, but Introducing Harvard maintains, "No description of the educational process at Harvard could be complete without mentioning the college's historic function: educating the sons and daughters of the nation's elite...
...that is, until now. This week Esquire will publish a 9,000-word chunk from Talese's as yet untitled and still unfinished book. The excerpt is about a girlie photo, the man who has carried on a masturbatory affair with that picture since 1957, and the California model who posed for it. Talese found the man, Harold Rubin, now 35 and a Chicago porn merchant, by wandering into his sex shop; he eventually learned of his obsession and finally located the model, Diane Webber, now a Malibu, Calif., housewife and belly-dance instructor. (The two have never...