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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea is still in the discussion stage, and a timetable for construction hasn't even been contemplated. With Harvard's large fund-raising commitments--the new Program for Harvard Science seeks $49 million and the University's total needs probably exceed $150 million--it may be five or ten years before anyone even considers the project seriously...
...pears (Michigan Fruit Canners and USP Corp.). Cummings calls his company an "autonoplex," for autonomous complex. Each of the 20 divisions is independent, sends a weekly financial, statement to Cummings, who aims for them to earn a pre-tax 20% on employed capital. Two-thirds of the divisions exceed that target. The most profitable are Sara Lee, Ohio's Lawson Milk Co., Booth Fisheries, Shasta Beverages and Eagle Food Centers...
Financial Monsters." The reason that commercial banks have gained while others have lost is that bankers have found a way to exceed the 4% interest ceiling on easily withdrawn passbook savings. They have done this by selling "certificates of deposit," which pay up 10 5½% for funds left on deposit for a fixed time, usually three months. The so-called C.D.s, in denominations as low as $25, have attracted $37 billion now constitute a volatile one-fourth of interest-bearing deposits in commercial banks...
...jury trial. One quarter of the country's juvenile court judges have had no legal training; lawyers appear in less than 5% of juvenile cases. Committal is often based on hearsay evidence; the criminal standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt is not required. Not only does incarceration often exceed adult sentences for the same offenses; for lack of youth facilities, 100,000 delinquents a year wind up in adult jails...
...adequate method of exempting required textbooks from the tax. The existing system of mimeographed forms signed by students and counter-signed by instructors is absurdly awkward. The forms insure that only "required" textbooks are exempted from the tax. The cost of processing those mounds of paper will surely exceed the revenues which the state would lose without this control. And one can only shudder at the thought of the confusion which will take place at every cash-register at every bookstore in Cambridge when the next semester begins...