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...Very few people have a clear idea of how the debt will figure in their plans," Gibson said. He said he would like to realign the system so students do not bear the brunt of their obligations the first year out of school, when other financial pressures are greatest...
When the world's monetary powers agreed to realign their currencies in return for an end to the U.S. import surcharge, one important country was missing from the revaluing ranks. Canada, the largest U.S. trading partner, had already allowed its dollar to float to higher levels more than a year earlier. Ottawa officials hope that their dollar will float down again so that Canadian exports will be cheaper in the U.S., and the Nixon Administration so far has not pressed Canada to fix a formal rate for its dollar...
Will you please check the two holes in the flap of the envelope, if they open this letter (they always do) they can't possibly realign those holes. Dan Nolan
...City for the express purpose of reducing auto-caused air pollution. Williams admits, however, that some modifications will be needed later for the turbine to meet even tougher antipollution laws set for 1976 cars. Considering that-and the fact that it takes much time for automakers to retool plants, realign suppliers and retrain personnel-he predicts that gas turbines will appear in passenger cars in 1978 at the earliest...
...Nick Jenkins, out of the army and back in London as literary editor of a new little magazine. Once again the plot proceeds not so much by incidents as coincidence. In a series of set pieces -a funeral, a literary cocktail party -characters bob up from the past, intermingle, realign themselves and caper off. As they pass, the inexhaustibly observant Nick murmurs his commentary with a rueful smile. All rather contrived, perhaps, but as Powell has one of his characters say: 'Human beings aren't subtle enough to play their part. That's where art comes...