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...takes more than easy credit to persuade a businessman to turn out goods for which there is no market. Argues Martin: "The Federal Reserve cannot turn the economy off and on like a faucet. But we can minimize fluctuations, and we have the responsibility to do that-to lean against the prevailing wind in order to achieve economic balance." To a great extent, the Federal Reserve's effectiveness in maintaining the balance of the U.S. economy today is a tactical victory for its ninth chairman...
...most of the people of Sussex, the decision was no hardship. It was no hardship at all to Miss R.E.M. Bessemer, the lean, sixtyish granddaughter of famed Steelman-Inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, whose family home is within a stone's throw of the Bluebell and Primrose. Though she usually rode about in her own motorcar, wealthy Miss Bessemer had an odd affection for the Bluebell and Primrose. "We oughtn't," she told her neighbors, "to look at it as a wee strip of line, but as part of a whole principle." In England there is always an appropriate...
Maine (14): Governor Edmund Muskie is quietly pro-Adlai, but Stevenson is drooping, Harriman climbing. Now divided 52 for Adlai, 5½ for Ave, three undecided (of which 1½ lean to Harriman...
...reduce is to cut down the amount of fuel (expressed as the number of calories) stoked into the body. And to do this they nearly always recommend cutting down most drastically on fats, sugars and starches, allowing an almost unlimited intake of low-fat protein foods such as lean meats, cottage cheese. The current ruckus was started by what seemed like a heretical doctrine coming from, of all places, one of the nation's most tradition-encrusted seats of medical orthodoxy, Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research...
...charging large executive salaries and bonuses to cost allowances on Government contracts, for hiring recently retired military generals "fresh from the opposite side of the desk" and giving them nebulous "advisory" positions. Said the report: "Companies whose business is so closely interwoven with the Military Es tablishment ought to lean over backward so that no suggestion of favoritism, influ ence, or 'old school tie' could be read into their conduct...