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...higher than the law permits. With only 400 inspectors to police 225,000 gasoline retail outlets, enforcement has been futile. This week the department will increase the legal profits retailers can collect. Thus stations, some of which have closed down in protest, may be able to raise prices another nickel a gallon...
...Treasury hopes for the Anthony buck are high. The coins, which are made of nickel-covered copper and contain no silver, weigh only a third as much as the Ike dollar. They are also cheaper to produce than paper dollars-3? for a coin that lasts 15 years vs. 1.8? for a bill that survives 18 months. The coin's distinctive undecagonal shape, besides being an aid to the blind, is also intended to help store clerks and bank tellers speed up transaction time and reduce errors; it should also cut down on jamming in currency-counting machines used...
...critic George Jean Nathan listed- and dismissed- some arguments behind "the vacation idea." Meet new people? "I have met hundreds upon hundreds of new people [on vacation] and you can have all but maybe six or seven of them for a nickel." Take things easy? "The more leisure you have, the more your cares will recur to you." Fun to just let go for a while? No, says Nathan: You eat too much, drink too much, spend too much. "You do everything, in short, that contributes to a magnificent case of physical, emotional, financial and spiritual katzenjammer." As for vacations...
...week of a course. But today federal legislation has dramatically altered the manner in which Harvard constructs its facilities. Reardon has tried to run his office as a model of compliance, and the nickname "Cliffie" isn't heard too often around 60 Boylston St. I wish I had a nickel for every freshman in the fall of '75 who would have snickered at even the mention of a women's ice hockey Beanpot or an Ivy championship women's soccer team...
Church's committee last week unanimously approved the compromise and both the full Senate and House are expected to approve it before March 1. But there remains a problem: South Carolina's Democrat Ernest F. Rollings, whose Senate Appropriations Subcommittee has refused to approve one nickel of the $2 million that the Administration has requested to operate its American Institute in Taipei...