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President Getulio Vargas and the Brazilian people find it simplest to blame their country's inflation on profiteering dealers (who have a noteworthy, but not a primary, role in forcing prices up). To prove that it is resolutely battling inflation, the government periodically announces dire anti-profiteering measures. In December, it said that people's courts, where high-markup shopkeepers could be tried by juries of irate housewives, would be set up; the courts have yet to start operation. Last week, after price riots in Belo Horizonte (TIME, Feb. 18), Price Boss Benjamin Scares Cabello announced the newest...
...leadership of the non-Communist world, the U.S. has some dire responsibilities to shoulder. One of them is to meet the fundamental moral challenge posed by the strange old wizard who lives in a mountainous land and who is, sad to relate...
This may yet be a year of improvement and hope; the dismal trends of the recent season may dissipate quickly and make these dire forebodings look ludicrous. We simply felt it was our duty to bring our readers up to date and to inform them that, as of now, 1952 was no geranium...
...pressing problems that face the modern minister and his church. Although students can take courses in the Social Relations department and do a great deal of outside practice work, this is not enough. No one wants the Divinity School to become a trade school, but there is a dire need for courses that deal specifically with the minister's relation to the congregation, his need and use of psychological techniques, the problems and practice of religious education, and other questions. Harvard is far behind other institutions in this respect...
...bring proposals for some kind of general federal government subsidy to higher education. Fiscal policies to halt inflationary trends would constitute a major contribution by the federal government to the welfare of higher education. If inflation continues, a federal subsidy would not catch up with or adequately alleviate the dire effects of inflation upon our colleges and universities...