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...current credit pinch, the loudest howls are from the U.S. homebuilding industry. Construction of new houses dropped from a near-record 1,300,000 new homes in 1955 to an estimated 1,100,000 this year. The chief reason is that the lending market for low-interest Veterans Administration and FHA-insured mortgages has dried up. Housing starts with VA and FHA mortgages have plummeted 30% to 467,400 units v. only a 1% drop for homes without Government-guaranteed mortgages. Last week the big argument was over the U.S. Government's newest move to help builders by hiking...
...some instances, however, it would seem that the administration is entirely justified in treating the undergraduates as babies. One of the loudest cries raised by some anguished students concerns the liquor ban of last spring. The official letter announcing the ban read as follows: "Because of excess and boisterousness during Spring weekend, the serving of alcoholic beverages at social functions is prohibited for the remainder of the academic year, except for approved senior activities during commencement week...
Money speaks loudest and first, and a new center to accommodate every undergraduate organization would require both large initial expenditures and substantial maintenance costs. The Student Council is not lobbying for a quonset hut; it desires a structure to rival Massachusetts and University Halls, not to mention Burr or Lamont. The building would be imposing, and the bill would be no small part of the conspicious consumption...
...logic of Hussein's position was compelling, but logic is not the loudest voice these days in Jordan's tumultuous streets, filled as they are with bitter and revengeful Palestine refugees, who make up a third of Jordan's population. In the end the real winner of this week's election seems likely to be the third vulture...
...moment, at least, everyone seemed satisfied-except the white colonials, whose disapproval of the mixed marriage had been loudest. "What," they were asking last week, "will happen if Mrs. Khama expects us to receive her black husband in our social rounds...