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First, he pointed out, the University supplies one-tenth of the money in an NDEA loan. Second, the University should not have to administer the disclaimer if it does not believe in it. Third, Harvard has a responsibility towards other colleges to oppose the disclaimer because of its virtually unique position of financial independence...
...Overnight all 1,000-and 500-rupiah notes were arbitrarily cut to one-tenth of their value (though smaller bills were not changed); 90% of every bank deposit over 25,000 rupiahs was frozen, so that the money could be seized for obligatory long-term loans to the government, and banks were closed for two days to straighten out their accounts and report to the government. A new exchange rate of 45 rupiahs to the dollar was proclaimed. All this was done to the accompaniment of denunciations by Sukarno of "vulture capitalists." Added he: "Whoever scoops up wealth...
...print order: a modest 25,000. This week Williams started a press run of 250,000 copies of TIME to be distributed to New England and eastern New York alone (see map). Williams' contribution, ten times the number of TIME'S first total run, is still only one-tenth of the total 2,500,000 copies of TIME printed every Monday in the five U.S. plants. (Chicago and the three foreign plants print 555,000 copies of TIME'S four international editions...
...ministers who also work fulltime in factories, issued a formal statement ("No movement or organization has been created. We do not want to become rigid"). But in the view of all five, such a movement is the Church of England's best hope for rekindling religious spirit (only one-tenth of England's 27 million Anglicans attended services last Easter Sunday, the day of top turnout). British workers, explains Strong, see the church as "a financial racket. Churches are empty now, but the Church still has income from investments. If empty churches meant hard times for vicars, then...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday voted by a clear-cut majority to allow a limited number of freshmen to participate in "experiments designed to intensify the intellectual experience of the freshman year." These members of the Class of 1963--probably numbering up to one-tenth of the Class--will receive course credit for their work...