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...features will mark the meeting: it is to be "caucus-free and factionless" and will be limited to one hour, including the discussion before elections. The new intra-organizational harmony stems from the report of the special committee on factionalism issued three weeks ago, which attempted to lessen the battling characteristic of the group's meetings last spring...
...first "boo" came from J. M. Mehl, administrator of the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Exchange Authority. The Board of Trade's margin requirements, raised only the week before, were still too low, said Mehl. He asked that they be doubled in order to "lessen the danger of a boom-&-bust situation...
...people embraced Communism we derived countermeasures. We re-educated some to the truth of Chinese civilization, thus winning back their allegiance to the motherland. We stressed moral education. We tried to re-establish family life more satisfactorily. We gave the poor technical training, to better themselves and thereby lessen their envy of the rich...
...Washington University, pioneers in psychosurgery, told of having performed prefrontal lobotomy - a brain operation which frees the patient from feelings of anxiety and fear - on patients who were suffering unbearable pain from chronic disease (TIME, Dec. 23). The operation had no effect on the disease, and did nothing to lessen the pain; but the patients, freed of anxiety, now found their suffering bearable, and some even laughed at it. The doctors' conclusion: "When pain no longer raises a mental picture of future disability, it can be borne with equanimity...
...wage raises, which had brought peace to heavy industry, would help keep up the purchasing power of many union members. To that extent, the boosts would lessen the effects of high prices and the dangers of a slump. But the benefiting unionists were only a small minority of consumers. The No. i problem for the U.S. was still to keep up the purchasing power of the majority. This could be done only by lowered prices. Was it not time that management showed a high degree of economic statesmanship-and lowered prices on a broad scale? Were not profits so high...