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...credit to help it get back on its feet. As one condition, IMF aides scrutinized and gave tacit approval to the draconian British budget introduced last week (see THE WORLD) before the Labor Government dared present it to Parliament. Had the IMF considered the British economic cutback too meager, it could have canceled the loan and so forced Britain at least to the brink of a second devaluation. The price Britain is paying for its profligacy is a partial loss of economic sovereignty to one of the most effective international organizations in history. Schweitzer considers it a badge of honor...
...flowing out of the industry's automated furnaces, bottle users are either cutting back their own production or looking for other kinds of containers. Brewers, who use nearly 20% of the annual output of 30 billion containers, have stepped up the use of cans and are nursing a meager hoard of returnable bottles. "We've been rationing throwaways for weeks," said Pittsburgh Brewing Co. President Louis J. Slais, "and if this thing lasts a few more days, there won't be any more throwaways to throw away...
...Boston rowers set a slow pace; at the half-mile marker, both shells were rowing thirty-two strokes a minute. Then Harvard gradually stretched its meager four foot lead. The space between the two crafts widened to a length. In desperation the Union Boat increased its stroking, but they seemed to observers to be fighting with the river rather than gliding through it. The Harvards won by a length and a quarter, in the time of 7 minutes and 20 seconds...
...that 30% of the children he treats are undersized, half are infested with worms and intestinal parasites, and over 60% have rotting teeth. Not one house in ten in Wolfe County is sound; up to 30% of mountain folk are functionally illiterate and condemned to idleness because their meager skills as coal miners have been obviated by the huge strip-mining machines that rip apart Kentucky's hillside seams. Federal aid to Appalachia, totaling $450 million since 1965, has done little to alleviate their plight. Industries that could bring work have shunned their ravaged landscape...
Yesterday the wail of protest reached an unprecedented crescendo. Reeling from Saturday night's massacre in New York--sixth-ranked Columbia more than doubled the Crimson's meager offense, 115-56--the players and their fans dragged through the day in disbelief. As usual most of the student abuse was directed at Coach Wilson...