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Henry pointed out that a lapse in applications did not necessarily mean a drop in the quality of the students. Last year, for instance, there were 239 fewer applicants, while the average on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, a possible measure of quality, was "creeping...
...worried," Henry stated. "The situation will take care of itself. We have more good applicants than we know what to do with, and perhaps fewer applications will mean fewer disappointments...
...plan to issue a guaranty for 80 per cent on loans made to Massachusetts students by banks in this state went into effect yesterday. The program, set up by the Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation, will mean that loans will be available at lower rates and for longer periods than would otherwise be possible...
Cutback. What Thompson's move 'did mean was that he had finally been able to win what Texas independents want-promise of a cut in crude imports (now some 820,000 bbl. daily), giving Texas a bigger share of the domestic market. That ambition had been implicit in Thompson's Washington testimony. The way to supply Europe was not to increase production, he said, but to make major refiners cut back imports of Venezuelan crude, ship it direct to Europe...
This is a novel about people with beer tastes and champagne incomes. They are the reverse of Oscar Wilde's cynics, for they know the value of everything and the price of almost nothing. They spout dialogue like a Wall Street high-speed ticker, but the quotations mean less. At their best they are faulty reproductions of two old masters, Fitzgerald and Marquand. At their worst they share what 27-year-old Novelist Flood (whose 1953 novel. Love Is a Bridge, was much overpraised) seems to share with many another young writer these days-tired blood...