Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informed investor thinks that there is the slightest risk that the Treasury will not be able to raise funds on some kind of terms. But Treasury officials know that their financing problems are a great deal bigger than outsiders realize. The chief source of the trouble is deficit spending and fears of more inflation. Not only did the Treasury have to make up for an estimated $13 billion gap between income and outgo this fiscal year, but by the end of 1962 it must refinance $129.5 billion in public debt, most of it incurred during World War II and Depression...
...stories in this collection deal with a problem that has concerned Jews throughout history: Should they or should they not let themselves be assimilated? Most of the Jewish characters in this book have succumbed to the alien and often tempting culture in which they live. Instead of being called Moses or Miriam, children are named Sheila, Kevin, Brenda, Neil. Scythelike noses have been bobbed into gentile unobtrusiveness, Talmudic scholars replaced by star athletes and Socialist singers...
Citing the high proportion of students entering their first choice House, Watson praised the present system of House assignments. "Although it's a great deal of work, it is far preferable to the IBM method used at Yale," he remarked...
...acting throughout Rebel is of the highest caliber, and Dean receives a great deal of support from Jim Backus as the pathetic father trying to fulfill his son's image of him. The family scene following the chickie run is a great example of high-pitched acting at its best...
...come up with a spirited group which has been unable to score a single point in its three contests. Dartmouth crushed the team, 11 to 0, Princeton, 9 to 0, and last week New York beat them unmercifully, 18 to 0. Of course, one cannot tell a great deal from comparative scores, but it seems reasonable to say that they certainly will not be the toughest oposition the Crimson has faced...