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...ever increasing number of students are taking loans from the University, particularly during their senior years while working on their theses. The combination of loans and summer jobs have already caused some employers "to feel the pinch in locating students" to fill places, Burke added. If the scarcity becomes too great, he might suggest hiring high school students...
...WILLIAM PINCH...
Economic troubles have something to do with Afrikaner hesitation. The Sharpeville massacre of 72 South African blacks last March and the international revulsion that followed sent shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange plummeting $1.2 billion as foreign investors withdrew their money. Afrikaner farmers and businessmen are feeling the pinch of the $23 million in exports that South Africa is expected to lose this year as a result of the boycott of South African goods by Ghana. Malaya, the West Indies and others. And all South African businessmen are haunted by the fear that if Verwoerd proclaims a republic, other Commonwealth...
...many firms to diversify in search of new sources of profits. Some retail jewelers are widening their lines to include typewriters, radios, stereo phonographs and small appliances. Shrinking profits have hit such giant food chains as A. & P., National Tea and Kroger, though some others have relieved the pinch by selling more and more items besides food. The Jewel Tea Co. chain (277 stores) has hiked its profits since it added high-profit-margin nonfood items-including brassieres...
Belgium is undoubtedly in the most trying position of anyone in this business, and she is evidently, feeling the pinch. W. W. Rostow's thesis that a colonial mother country's problem is not so much to colonize as it is to clear out of its colonies is justifying itself in a manner intolerable to Premier Eyskens. The Premier regards Lumumba as the worst type of new nationalist leader, and Tshombe as a nice, cooperative sort of chap whose policies seem likely to keep everyone perfectly tranquil...