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Heller also stressed that passage of President Kennedy's proposed increase in depreciation allowances will stimulate the economy by encouraging investment and reducing the corporate tax load. The Council, Treasury Department, and Bureau of the Budget are considering other tax reforms, Heller told an overflow crowd at Littauer Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HELLER FORESEES RISE OF $30 BILLION IN GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT FOR '63 | 2/10/1962 | See Source »

Speaking before an overflow audience in Boylston Hall auditorium, Borges warned writers not to "dazzle or surprise" their readers. A writer should not let his words "stand between him and the reader," he cautioned: rather the words should be "invisible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Borges Emphasizes 'Dream of Writers' | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...House and Senate, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark of Texas, and hundreds of other dignitaries from all over the U.S. At the door of the church, William ("Fishbait") Miller, longtime chief doorkeeper of the House, greeted the distinguished mourners and quietly ushered them to their seats. Out front, an overflow crowd of the friends and neighbors of Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn waited in the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Laid to Rest | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...whole day had been set aside for debate on the issue, and an overflow crowd of spectators jammed the side aisles of the room in Cobo Hall to be present when the Episcopal fireworks went off. Virginia's Bishop Robert F. Gibson Jr. moved the acceptance of the invitation issued by the United Presbyterian General Assembly, to begin talks looking to eventual union of the Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and United Church of Christ.* He reminded his 190 fellow bishops that they were not passing on the merits of the Blake proposal as such, but on "an official invitation from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalian Assent | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...although some Masters have agreed to take three or four extra men, none of the Houses is planning to absorb a large part of the overflow...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Deans to Allow More Men to Live Off Campus to Ease Overcrowding | 9/26/1961 | See Source »

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