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...European Payments Union. Foreseeing such a day, 17 countries of Western Europe pledged themselves, back in 1955, to settle their foreign-trade accounts through a new organization called the European Monetary Agreement. Unlike E.P.U., it will not automatically extend credits to nations that run a deficit in their inter-European trade. Without the cushion of automatic credits, all Western European nations-and especially France, which ran up a $460 million deficit in E.P.U.-will have to keep inter-European payments more closely in balance than before. Along with this consequence of convertibility went another risk -the prospect that...
...seems logical that any new living space opened up would attract students who wish to room with new friends outside their present House. Normally, inter-House shifting is taboo, and Wigg and Claverly offer but a minimum of relief (and Wigg will be all-freshman next year anyway). Moving to any new House also offers a tactful excuse for leaving present roommates and escaping tensions. "There's always a push and a pull in these moves," Riesman hays, "and the roommate situation may well be either...
...redefining of anything quite as absolute as "100 per cent" will require a semantic and mathematical wizardry which only a Princeton Einstein could manage. Still, we have faith in the Inter-Club Council's ability to turn a 95 per cent Bicker into a 100 per cent Bicker--the difficult they can do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer...
...miles campaigning for Democrats in i& states. He is an avowed Fair Dealer, but separates himself from past liberal flops by explaining that he is a "visceral" liberal-strong on farm supports, reclamation, competitive coexistence with Russia, civil rights, etc.-as opposed to an "intellectual" or "New York" liberal - inter ested "only in civil rights and immigra tion." As a Senator. Humphrey has worked hard and with some success at winning the regard of conservative Southern politicos, hut as a presidential candidate, he still cannot realistically expect Southern sup port. This pains Humphrey. "I can do pretty good." he says...
...exchange program, which is under the auspices of Columbia's Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, has also arranged for 24 American students, including four from Harvard, to study at Moscow University this year...