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...Balance Wheel. Controversial activity is a long tradition with Fannie Mae. A 28-year-old New Deal creation, the agency has become the world's largest mortgage banking facility by buying $15.7 billion of loans to finance 1,586,000 homes and apartments. Basically, it aims to lend heavily when home loans are scarce, sell part of its portfolio to private lenders when funds are plentiful. So well does the agency perform this balance-wheel job that private mortgage men consider it indispensable. Precisely because of Fannie Mae's high standing in the financial community, Congress often gives...
...Britain, banks are now within 1%, or $47,500,000, of the ceiling on the amount of money that they can lend; many banks are calling some current loans. At the same time, British corporations will have to scrape up around $1.5 billion by year's end to pay taxes on their dividend payments as well as the new selective employment...
...demands of prison life, says Gilkey, frequently exposed the strict Protestant ethic as legaiism wrapped in hypocrisy. Many of his fellow prisoners were critical of the compound's fundamentalist ministers. On principle, they refused to lend their canteen cards to heavy smokers-but they would not hesitate to barter the cigarettes they got from the Red Cross for extra tins of food. Far more popular were the Roman Catholic missionaries, who generally displayed a spirit of freedom from material wants that enabled them to play a creative, neighbor-helping role in the community...
Firsthand Look. To lend the trip suitable nonpartisan trappings, the President corralled three Republican Congressmen to join his party of 100, picked up others along the way. In Buffalo, he also met New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and they both took a look at sewage-contaminated water. In Syracuse, the crowd of 100,000 in Columbus Square listened to Johnson's review of the cities' plight, but really stirred only when New York's Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Jacob K. Javits arrived. Bobby evoked shrieks, was still shaking hands as the President climbed...
Reston also suggests that the Sunday papers run an "Issue of the Month" feature, which could lend a wider perspective to the major current problems. He feels that, in general, we are so concerned with the events at hand that we fail to look ahead or behind for trends in the news which could provide clues to the best possible foreign policy...