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Composed as an adjunct to the faculty proposal for a Harvard "youth corps," the poll presented three possible variations of the project: 1) a two-year project which leaves open the question of the draft; 2) a one-year project which does the same thing; or 3) a two-year project representing an alternative to the draft...
...Birth Controller Margaret Sanger, 77, took a suspicious look at Roman Catholic Presidential Nominee John Kennedy and dramatically announced that she would move out of the U.S.-lock, stock and devices-if he were elected. Last week she changed her mind, decided to give Kennedy's Administration a one-year trial before making any plans for expatriation. Reason: "Some of my friends who are also very close friends of Senator and Mrs. Kennedy have told me that they are both sympathetic and understanding toward the problem of world population...
...observed that the shortage of courses is due to coincident sabbaticals and a changing faculty, but some have frankly admitted surprise. Whatever the excuse or justification, it seems that the dwindling number of courses is indicative of a trend, one that is particularly unfair to students outside the Department and to some non-Honors English concentrators. Even as a one-year phenomenon, it has disappointed many people...
...sharp enough to enable the Treasury to change plans in refunding some $11.5 billion in debt. Three days before the refunding, the Treasury had expected to offer 5% notes. Instead, it announced that it will replace the two issues of maturing securities with four-year, nine-month notes and one-year certificates. Both will carry 4⅞% coupons. While the saving was small, it was the first time in months that the Treasury had been able to drop its rate on short-term securities. Nobody in Washington or on Wall Street last week knew whether rates would continue to ease...
...shares reached a peak, a new group of sharpers moved in, said Lefkowitz. Knowing the stock was astronomically overpriced, they began selling short. Among those known to have sold short, said Lefkowitz, were two ex-convicts, Sidney Barcley and Morris ("The Weasel") Miller, who got one-year prison terms in 1958 for SEC violations involving Canadian oil and uranium stocks. After the price plummeted, Barcley made the rounds of sweating brokerage houses offering "mob money" to bail the brokers out and take over their businesses...