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MONEY: Hoping to slow down the economy and restrain inflation, the Federal Reserve Board made credit costlier and tighter. The Fed raised the discount rate by ½%, to 7%-equaling the alltime high set in 1921. It also raised bank reserve requirements, which will make credit harder to get. These moves will certainly send up short-term interest rates. Banks will probably increase their prime lending rate to businessmen by ¼%, to a very steep 8%. The Fed acted in part because credit demand has been so great that the nation's money supply expanded at a dangerously high...
Doubtless fed up with journalistic prying into her private life, Martha got on the line to U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas (who is certain that this was the real Martha) and announced that she and Marty were "going South." Before leaving, she merely wanted to reiterate her view that Nixon should resign. "I don't like Agnew, but my God, I think he's better than Nixon. I've told my husband repeatedly that I may not be here many years, but Marty will be, and his grandchildren." For good measure, she telephoned NBC and spoke...
Benditt's hypothesis is based on experiments with chickens, which developed arterial deposits identical to those found in humans, whether or not the birds were fed cholesterol. Some fatty material was found in the growths, but it apparently had begun to accumulate after the formation of the plaques...
...lemonade and mellows your insides with a particularly warm high. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.) is a traditional Harvard beer guzzling haunt, but it should be avoided on principle--a waitresses' union protested the restaurant's miserable working conditions for who knows how long, and the owner fed their complaints with abusive intransigence...
...Food and Drug Administration banned the use of DES in cattle feed after a Nader task force reported it to be carcinogenic, i.e. cancer-causing. Yet in the Morning After pill, a dose 168,000 times as great as that found in food from DES-fed cows is given to unsuspecting women. Though banned from our food, the FDA has not banned DES from our bodies. The danger, according to Dr. Herbst of Massachusetts General Hospital, is that this massive dose of DES might "stimulate the growth of already existent pre-cancerous cells." According to a fact sheet published...