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...Radcliffe, the Student Government last year passed the liberal rules, which had originally been put forward by a joint Harvard-Radeliffe student dean committee. These would have provided that Annex students could join any Harvard group which agreed to admit them and did not have counterpart at Radcliffe, until there were enough of them (20) to form their own organization...
Last week Giant fans were able to move back to the present again. Their favorites were in the first division, and they had found a reasonable 1950 counterpart to Hubbell in Righthander Sal Maglie, a sturdy, blue-jowled pitcher who proved this year that he could throw with the best of them. He was even making threatening gestures at Hubbell's National League record of 43⅓-scoreless innings...
...Ally was not worth the cost, suspended publication. Said Britain's Foreign Office: the Soviet government had "decided to strangle British Ally by denying Soviet readers the chance of buying it." But it cold-shouldered Britons' suggestions that London retaliate by closing down Ally's Soviet counterpart in England. Said a spokesman: "How could we close it down if we wanted to? This is a free country...
...cost the Government, as biggest consumer of all, more than it would pay out in higher interest rates. New York Federal Reserve Bank President Allan Sproul had told Congress months ago that "the country cannot afford to keep money cheap at all times and in all circumstances, if the counterpart of that action is inflation, rising prices, and a steady deterioration in the purchasing power of the dollar...
...opposed to handing Franco $100 million to do with as he pleased. Even nations like Britain, who were wartime allies, got no such favored treatment. ECA nations had been required to sign tough bilateral treaties with the U.S., to subject their spending plans to U.S. scrutiny and to post counterpart funds of their own currencies against U.S. dollars. Dean Acheson denounced the Senate's action at his press conference, and Harry Truman backed him up. McCarran's amendment, said the President, was entirely out of place in the ECA bill and he hoped they would take...