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...ordinary Russian, however, the new price system has a bright counterpart. Wages were to remain the same in new rubles as in the old. But bread would be cheaper by 12%, cereals by ten, and most other foods remain unchanged from their previous lowest levels. Because citizens whose prices would be cut greatly outnumbered those with unbanked hoards, there was more jubilation than grief in Russia at the Zhdanov decree...
Writing about this Brave New World in 1932, Aldous Huxley described the human hatching & conditioning centers, where everyone was taught his place. The highest were a super class of executives known as Alphas, the lowest were Epsilons, or sewer workers, who were taught Ford's memorable words: "History is bunk...
...Provide funds for further capital investment by "an immediate and substantial reduction" of taxes. (Under the N.A.M.'s detailed plan for such cuts, they would range from a minimum of 40% across the board to a maximum 60% on the lowest incomes...
...Federal low-cost housing. In an inflationary period the 198 Cambridge and Boston units assigned Harvard represent a large percentage of the total number of apartments available to veterans living on their government allotments. The great majority of married veterans cannot compete for apartments on any but the lowest rent scale and Federal housing was designed to place decent living quarters within reach of their meager income. It seems grossly unfair that the University sees fit to allow a $10,000 per year faculty member a higher priority than the man for whom the project was intended...
Dick Harlow returned to his old time policy of teaching his boys football by having them play football at Soldiers Field yesterday. With the stream of injuries at its lowest point since Virginia, Harlow sent his A and B teams through 45 minutes of offensive and defensive scrimmage against Chief Boston's Jayvees, who simulated Bruins...