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Last year, the off-off quota was 36. Forty-two students, however, were selected by lottery and "personal criteria" to move off, a spokesman for the Residence Office said...
Previously, students living off-off-campus did not pay for these services, and a non-resident quota was used to avoid what Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, called a "burden" on college funds...
Rules of Order. Membership in Augusta National is strictly limited to 200, regulated loosely on a geographical quota system (no more than 50 members, say, can come from the New York area), and rigidly controlled by Roberts and Jones. "As far as I can recall," says Roberts, "nobody has ever been invited to be a member of this club that Bob and I haven't met." Augusta National's dues are a secret, as is its membership list-although some of the members are so prominent (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rubber Baron Leonard Firestone, Sportsman John Hay Whitney) that...
...measure would limit imported woolen and man-made textiles to 8.6% of domestic consumption, a level well below the 10.1% of the market that such foreign products snared last year. The Senate came within a single vote (38-37) of adding a quota on dairy imports to the same tax bill. House negotiators may well resist heavy pressure to agree to the textile quota in the Sen ate-House conference on the final form of the bill. Still, the rising strength of protectionist sentiment in Congress has brought serious threats of retaliation from a dozen countries...
Strong Backing. High-tariff advocates, concerned over competition from rising imports, have laid a score of quota proposals before Congress. They could affect $12 billion, or 75% of the nation's dutiable imports: not only textiles and dairy items but also apparel, steel, shoes, glass, oil, lead, zinc, pot ash, electronic products, ball and roller bearings, meat, honey, frozen strawberries, mink fur and watches. The three major bills have impressive senatorial backing: 29 co-sponsors for oil quotas, 36 for steel and 68 for textiles-in the third case enough to override a promised presidential veto. In the House...