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While there has been little if any talk of resurrecting the union, grad students in the Economics and History Departments have formed and nurtured their own "clubs." These serve both to lessen the social alienation many graduate students suffered and to represent graduate students as a united group to their departments and the University...
Whoever takes over as Boss of All Bosses, dramatic departures from Gambino's style are certain. Gambino preferred peaceful solutions. He limited membership in the Mafia, ostensibly to lessen the risk that informants might join the families but actually to keep down the numbers he had to oversee. Gambino's would-be successors believe in expanding membership-in part to strengthen their own forces and provide themselves with point men for any future Mafia shootouts. For the past three years, they have brought into the country, via Montreal, a number of young, hardened, reliable Sicilian gangsters called "greenhorns...
...indications are that such domestic issues will be dealt with first. But in the long run, the purge of the left could also affect foreign policy. In Moscow, there was some satisfaction over the events of the past two weeks. A move toward pragmatism in Peking could lessen the importance of the ideological disagreements between the two countries. Moreover, the Chinese military understands full well its weakness on the Russian frontier, and it may push for at least a limited rapprochement with Moscow...
...Britain cut into the profit on such products as tobacco, America's No. 1 export (102 million pounds last year). When colonial hat and wool manufacturers started to compete with English factories, Parliament likewise restricted American hat and cloth manufacturing. "The erection of manufactories in the Colonies tends to lessen their dependence on Great Britain," reads a House of Commons resolution. When America began exporting iron, Parliament prohibited the establishment of new factories in the Colonies. Only this year did the Colonists build their first new mill to make sheet iron in Trenton...
...backed by the Administration, contend that they are competitive and point out, correctly, that there is far less concentration of market power in oil than in autos, steel, aluminum and other fields. A Treasury Department study released last week asserts that divestiture would hamper the industry's efficiency, lessen exploration and development of new wells, increase the nation's dependence on costly foreign oil and drive up prices. Oilmen agree that if more companies were bidding vigorously for Middle East oil, prices might drop somewhat−if there was a glutted market. But that system could work both...