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...other Western capitals, Amsterdam has had its quota of student barricades, tear gas volleys and police baton charges. The youthful protesters, who used to be known as Provos (for provocateurs), rioted over almost everything from Crown Princess Beatrix's lavish wedding in 1966, when they tossed smoke bombs at the royal carriage, to the country's critical housing shortage. But new tactics were introduced early this year by the Kabouters, or Pixies, who decided that fun and games might be more effective than paving stones and smoke bombs...
...Attack structural rigidities in the economy. U.S. business is shot through with restrictive union practices, fair-trade laws, and indefensible subsidies to farmers, shipping men and others. All such rigidities help to drive up prices. Quotas on steel and oil imports keep out low-priced foreign materials. An act passed by Congress in 1964 orders the President to impose a quota on meat imports if they seem likely to rise 10% or more above the 1959-1963 yearly average. In order to avoid triggering the quota, foreign suppliers are refraining from shipping in as much meat as they could. That...
...Draft boards are required to return to number one each onth. Under the current system, it is possible that aspreviously deferred men whose numbers have already been reached join the pool, the Pentagon will have to go a much shorter way down the list of numbers to fill its quota-perhaps only as far as =200 in September or later months. Thus. it is mathematically possible that unless more effort is made to process people soon. a higher number will be reached in an early month than in a later one. The critical point is that the current speed...
Another embarrassing situation that speedy processing might alleviate is the case where a local board panics because the men with low lottery numbers are either deferred or not yet processed. To meet their quota for the month, they might be forced to take a man with an extremely high number (say 358). Does this mean that all the men in that board with numbers less than 358 will have to go either this year or next? Surely...
...effort to reach the recommended quota. May has again extended the deadline for applications from Harvard undergraduates wishing to move to Radcliffe. applications will be accepted at 4 University Hall until 5 p. m. Wednesday, April...