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...previous Councils. The trouble lay more in what it failed to do, the fields which it did not consider. To solve this problem, we recommend a little emphasis on originality and less on "campus politicking." Or, if you will, if the clam juice runs a little short, a little nip of brandy neat might do the trick...
...Mahoney by 50,000 votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle with Cliff Young, Democratic Incumbent Alan Bible spurted ahead, eked out a breathless victory...
...Yale high-scoring trio, worked, as both Jim Schlaeppi and Dave Norris finished ahead of Kingston, behind Bogan and Hogen. But Friedman, running one of his best races of the season, finished right behind Norris, and Slowik unleashed a tremendous finishing kick in the last 100 yards to nip Captain Dave McLean by a couple of steps for the eighth position. Ralph Perry finished right behind McLean to complete the varsity scoring...
...highest level (3%) since 1933 only last fortnight. (Conversely, by lowering the discount rate, as Martin did in the 1954 recession, the FRB makes it less expensive to borrow money.) ¶ An even faster-acting weapon is the FRB's $23 billion portfolio of marketable Treasury securities. To nip expanding credit, the FRB sells securities through its Open Market Committee at competitive prices, thus sucks in funds from bank reserves. Since banks can lend up to $6 for every $1 in reserve, every dollar paid for these Treasury securities actually can mop up as much as $6 in potential...
...York City's popular Mayor Robert Wagner, who, at week's end, had no real opposition. On the Republican side, the leading contender is G.O.P. Attorney General Jacob Javits, 52, the only Republican to win a statewide office in 1954. New York's November outlook: nip, tuck, and rough...