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...broadening" its open-market operations. This led many to believe that the Fed intended to buy enough long-term bonds to cushion the market; it gave courage to the market, attracted buyers back into bonds. But the Fed's purchases were limited to buying $1 billion of one-year certificates to aid the Treasury's July refinancing operation. As the effect of this wore off and hopes for more substantial assistance faded, the shock of disappointment sent bonds down some more. Last week, in raising margin requirements on stocks, the Fed signaled possible new moves to tighten credit...
...Kupang Kid." Then the government, whose "white Australia" policy bars Asian immigrants, brusquely announced that, once restored to health, Bas Wie would be sent back to Timor. Darwin citizens bombarded the Immigration Minister with protests. "A kid with guts like that," said one, "needs encouragement." Yielding to pressure, the government gave Bas Wie a one-year certificate of exemption. Each year after that the certificate was renewed...
...Stilt") Chamberlain, the 7-ft.-2-in. lapsed amateur from the University of Kansas (TIME, June 2) looked over the basketball season ahead and announced a change of plans. Rather than gamble on taking his own team on tour, Wilt decided on a sure thing. He signed a one-year contract with those skillful showboaters, the Harlem Globetrotters...
Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, who got only tepid support from miners for his Domestic Mineral Stabilization Plan (TIME, May 19), last week won more enthusiasm with a new proposal for copper. The new one-year plan calls for Government stockpile purchases of up to 150,000 tons at prices up to 27½? per lb. (v. the present producers' price of 25? per lb.) in addition to the 10,000 tons a month the Government already buys for the stockpile. Western mining-state Congressmen like the stockpiling plan better than the out-and-out subsidy previously suggested, thus...
...Mass. and in San Francisco. These establishments resemble hospitals except that patients go there to be healed by prayer and not by medicine. They also provide training for Christian Science nurses, who learn their techniques of prayer and care in three-year courses (regular registered nurses need only a one-year Christian Science course). Enrollments, according to the report, are "at the highest point in many years." Said Leonard Tillotson Carney, newly elected President of the Mother Church (he was converted to Christian Science from the Congregational Church when his infant son was healed by a practitioner): "It is yielding...