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...charge of civic affairs. In Philadelphia, N. W. Ayer Chairman Harry A. Batten organized the Greater Philadelphia Movement, which will open a $100 million Food Distribution Center in 1958 and eliminate crowded, unsanitary markets in the heart of the city. Each year in Houston, Humble Oil & Refining Co. lends a full-time staff of 100 Humble employees to help organize the United Fund drive, while Boeing Airplane Co. President William Allen, who is 1956 national chairman of United Community Campaigns of America, will lend six of his bright young executives to the Seattle Community Chest this year, pay their salaries...
Attempting to lend more dignity to beauty contests-an institution which the church has consistently opposed-the promoters of the Miss Italy contest at Rimini decided to put all entrants through a culture quiz. The results were disastrous. The beauties could not identify Hamlet, Lucrezia Borgia, or even Romulus and Remus (said one: "Greek twins''). None knew the boiling point of water, which in Italy is a simple 100°C. One was unable to name a single Italian wine-her brave try: "Champagne." Without congratulating the winner, Nives Zegna, 19, of Milan, the Vatican's eminent...
...less expensive to borrow money.) ¶ An even faster-acting weapon is the FRB's $23 billion portfolio of marketable Treasury securities. To nip expanding credit, the FRB sells securities through its Open Market Committee at competitive prices, thus sucks in funds from bank reserves. Since banks can lend up to $6 for every $1 in reserve, every dollar paid for these Treasury securities actually can mop up as much as $6 in potential loans. Since the first of the year, the Open Market Committee has allowed the banking system to thin out their portfolios without replenishing the money...
...handsome brother chopped his way to the throne as Edward IV. Richard became a Knight of the Bath and of the Garter. He was then nine. Next year he became Admiral of England. Ireland and Aquitaine. When he was 16, he wrote a letter asking a friend to lend him 100 pounds. That is substantially all that the records have...
...were sleeping in beds provided by American money, using equipment bought by American money, and reading books bought with American money." Diffenderfer said one student had said to him: "I dislike the U.S. and propose to publish a newspaper attacking the U.S.," and had then asked: "Will the foundation lend me the money?" Diffenderfer replied: "If you're coming to shoot me, why should I give you a gun?" "To prove," answered the student, "that you really do believe in free speech, as you claim...