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Hayes denied the committee's charges yesterday, saying that he did not begin the war at this time for political ends, but because complaints shout the hippies had risen drastically since Labor...
Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices rose by 0.3% in August, reversing the normal trend for that month. Wholesale prices also rose by 0.3%. If Congress fails to pass a tax rise, the independent Federal Reserve Board may well restrict credit-as it did in similar circumstances last year-and perhaps make tight money an even bigger election-year issue than higher taxes. Fast-rising prices do not make for friendly voters either. As obnoxious as these alternatives may be in Washington, they have yet to exert any lubricating effect on the stalemate between Lyndon...
...indeed impressive. Its faculty is regarded by many as the finest in the U.S. More than 40,000 lawyers have studied there, including such men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter. Among today's leaders, the school has produced Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Yale President Kingman Brewster and Sociologist David Riesman. The quality is matched by quantity. Harvard Law has prepared fully one-fourth of all U.S. law professors, and its 21,000 living graduates constitute one-sixth of the lawyers in the country...
Since he first learned to make them, weapons have been among man's most prized possessions. Over the ages, crafts men, armorers and artists lavished their labor to make them both functional and beautiful, from the gold-encrusted swords of kings to magnificently engraved crossbows for the attendant men-at-arms. But in the long history of weaponry, nothing quite matches the superb decoration of firearms developed during the Renaissance when physics and art, ballistics and sculpture were united under the guidance of such artistic geniuses as Leonardo da Vinci...
...While labor negotiations at strike-bound Ford and the other auto companies wore on last week, a finale of sorts was reached in another regular Detroit drama: the annual reshuffling of new-model prices...