Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who believe something can be done are, however, turning away from traditional areas of commitment such as religion. Harvard-based Lutheran Chaplain Paul Santmire, 29, finds that "these kids have been fed a Milquetoast gospel in a modern world; they view religion with a certain anthropological sophistication. Yet they are past Nietzsche, because they really would like to believe." More than 250,000 students are helping tutor children in depressed areas. A more immediately fruitful area for social involvement is the campus itself-a malleable microcosm of an existing and perfectible world. Harold Taylor, former president of Sarah Lawrence...
...those topless streets in San Francisco's New Left Bohemia. The staffers fill the magazine with clever if sophomoric humor. Public figures distasteful to Ramparts are pictured as various beasts of prey. The latest, Columnist Max Lerner, is shown as a "Common Boar" who would rather be "fed than...
...money supply - currency in circulation and demand deposits in banks - dropped from $171.6 billion to $166.9 billion. The reverse was particularly jarring because, simultaneously, loan demands were greatly stepped up as a result of two moves by the U.S. Treasury - which does not always coordinate too well with the Fed...
Though they could scarcely believe that the Fed would let any such disaster occur, bankers could not be certain. To raise money, they sold off billions of dollars in municipal bonds from their portfolios at great loss. Bond prices crashed and bond yields soared. A year before, long-term municipal bonds had been selling at $1,000 and paying $40 in annual interest; in late 1966, the same bonds were down to $800 but still paying $40 - in effect, yields rose from 4% to 5%. New York State had to pay 5.7% to float one tax-free issue; Baltimore, Louisville...
...mountaineer of the mons Veneris. Why? Well, because it was there. No rational or speculative explanation can serve otherwise to explain his enormous obsession. His book illustrates the Hegelian principle that quantity becomes quality. Art emerges from arithmetic: it could have been written by a computer fed to repletion by a sex-crazed programmer...