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...commercial photographer from Baton Rouge, La., ran into financial difficulties while setting up his business in 1957 and had to defer payment on various accounts. He has since become successful enough to buy-on credit-an airplane for his business, and Dun & Bradstreet rates his borrowing capacity at about $35,000. But three months ago his wife was unable to charge two cans of paint for the family swimming pool because of the eleven-year-old local credit-bureau report...
...Uniform Uniforms. Besides lightening their flight schedules, some airlines may have to cancel or at least defer new aircraft orders. John Crooker Jr., chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, is particularly concerned about local feeder lines. Recent jet purchases have enabled these carriers to increase their available seat miles (the number of seats multiplied by the distance flown) by 40% over the past year. However, they have increased passenger traffic by only 27%. Feeder lines, Crocker warns, may have committed themselves to "substantially more equipment than projected traffic warrants...
When Selective Service announced last February that it would no longer defer most graduate students, academe responded with alarm. Harvard President Nathan Pusey complained that first-year classes this fall would contain only "the lame, the halt, the blind and the female." The Council of Graduate Schools predicted that most such classes would be slashed in half. Now most graduate school deans concede that their anguish was unwarranted, or at least premature. Fall enrollment will be surprisingly close to normal...
...request of the police they are turned off. Rudd suggests we go back to the sundial and join with 300 demonstrators there, but we know that he couldn't possibly know whether there are 300 demonstrators there and we don't want to leave. He persists and we defer...
...attack on the President's policy, is melting in the heat of success. McCarthy seems more than a little annoyed at Kennedy's haste, and remarks half-whimsically that, "the track is getting a little crowded," while Kennedy supporters quietly insist that the Minnesota Senator will be forced to defer after the two clash in their first primary encounter...