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...loud est word. Said he, mindful of the fact that the parade authorities included a local judge: "I have a new theory on what happened to the snakes when St. Patrick drove them out of Ireland. They all came to New York and became judges." If asked in a pinch to name the world's most oppressive press photographers, many an actress would settle on the horde that prowls Rome. At Fiumicino Airport last week, after a visit with her three Rossellini offspring, Ingrid Bergman suddenly wheeled on her preying pursuers, snapped, "I am not a rare animal," later...
...written in a beautiful, contemporary style; it has a dignity of its own." Added Princeton's Dr. Franklin W. Young: "The new translation brings us close to the colloquial style which predominates in the original Greek text." Some striking examples of colloquialism: "he began to feel the pinch" (Luke 15:14); "Remember: sparse sowing, sparse reaping" (II Corinthians 9:6); "I never sponged upon you . . ." (II Corinthians 12:13).* Pearls to Pigs. Other critics were not quite so charitable. British Theologian...
Easing the Pinch. Heller's recipe for speeding up economic growth calls for a sharp break with the Eisenhower Administration's "tight money" policy. As its main instrument for preventing inflation and achieving price stability, the Eisenhower Administration, with the cooperation of the Federal Reserve System, relied on a policy of keeping interest rates high, and pinching the overall supply of money and credit. At the same time, it labored to cut down public spending and achieve a balanced budget...
...easing the pinch of tight money, Heller believes, the Kennedy Administration will be able to do a lot better at balancing the budget than the Eisenhower Administration did. The proper course, Heller holds, lies between the too-high interest rates of the Eisenhower years and the toolow rates of the Truman years...
...Poles themselves would like to see Kennedy work out an amendment to the Johnson Act, which has prevented the floating dollar loans from U.S. banks and private industry. But such an amendment is not likely, in view of how tightly the U.S. will have to pinch pennies in order to cover its development loans to Latin America, Asia, and Africa...