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...thereby lending aid and comfort to the Republican enemy only a few months before the election. Last month, with a Democratic President about to take office, Rayburn made up his mind that in the interests of party responsibility and party control of Congress, he was going to have to loosen Judge Smith's grip on the Rules Committee...
...INTEREST RATES. The Fed was right in using its tools to restrict credit during incipient inflation, loosen it later. Dillon thus failed to back up a Kennedy campaign charge that the Fed pinched off the boom with high interest rates...
...moreover, while practicing this laissez-faire-to-the-death policy toward its allies, also once proclaimed the immorality of neutralism. Until the United States as a nation and as a leader accepts the sincere intentions of men like Nehru and Nkrumah to build a "third force" bloc, until we loosen the military strings attached to foreign aid, until we stop driving Castros and Toures into the outstretched arms of the Soviet alliance, we shall continue to pour money into the coffers of neutrals and gain only their contempt...
...worsening the U.S. gold outflow -a step the U.S. did not encourage. Some Swiss bankers criticized the U.S. Treasury for lacking the courage to stop the price rise, felt that Treasury could have saved the situation quickly by the dramatic gesture of sending U.S.-held gold to Europe to loosen the tight market. But Treasury officials felt that any indication that the dollar needed crutches was bound to hurt more than help in the long...
...entrance 5 was a short, bald track coach who knew better than any other man just how much the 1,500 meters would cost Johnson and Yang. U.C.L.A.'s Ducky Drake had trained them both. For two days he had alternately worried about Johnson ("He's tense. Loosen up, Ray. Loosen up! Relax"), and exhorted Yang ("Judas priest! Get that blasted head down on that high jump"). Drake guessed that Johnson would forget about winning the 1,500 meters, try simply to stick close enough to Yang to preserve his overall decathlon lead. "If Ray doesn...