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...Rent Supplements Bill. Moreover, these bills had to be so watered as to cripple them both. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a weathervane of Congressional opinion, felt free to kill Johnson's bid to lower tariff's to Eastern European nations even before it could obtain a sponsor...
...addition, Hudgins maintains that Negroes are contributing more to Harlem by dealing with the Freedom National Bank because it is doing more for Harlem than the other, white-owned, banks. Hudgins claims that the bank makes long-term loans to Negroes which they cannot obtain from white banks. In practice, the degree and nature of such discrimination is difficult to measure, since many Negroes who would like to borrow have low incomes--median Negro income in New York City is a little more than half that of median white income--and cannot hope to measure up to the established credit...
...passed yesterday, the plan gives greater freedom to both freshmen and upperclassmen in the extent to which they must obtain permission to leave, indicate destination, and adhere to a stated time return...
...committee's plan, however, was opposed by a majority of RGA, and it also aroused considerable opposition in the college. Students primarily objected to a regulation requiring upperclassmen to obtain permission from their head residents if they wished to stay out later than 3 a.m. for more than three consecutive nights. No such rule had existed under the old system...
...bewildering red tape and conflicting customs. In Catholic Portugal, for instance, there is no cremation, and embalming must be done by a physician (for fees ranging up to $800). In Italy, where burial customs are still an antiquated lot, the wooden coffins must be a hard-to-obtain three centimeters thick. In France, the coffin must be sealed in the presence of the police, and no fewer than six documents are required to move the body to another town. In Spain, there is an acute shortage of cemetery space for non-Catholics...