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...week, Johnson took the trodden path: he reappointed James Louis Robertson, 56, whose term officially expired in January, to another 14-year term as governor. Robertson agrees with Johnson that the thriving U.S. economy is not yet in a boom and thus needs no hike in interest rates to restrain its growth. Says he: "I don't intend to begin fighting inflation until inflation begins." The tall, spare Nebraskan fought the board's decision to raise stock-margin requirements from 50% to 70% last November (he wanted a 10% boost), and was the only member to vote against...
...Woodrow Wilson said in a lecture at Columbia in 1906. "His capacity will set the limit." Few today would agree. In a world complicated by foreign committments, enlarged bureaucracy, and increased technology, it is almost a truism that a clutch of factors restrain the President...
When Richard Burton was eight years old, his mother paraded him up to a pastry shop window. As he admired the delicacies inside, she ordered him to walk on, remarking piously, "It is so good for little children to restrain themselves." Enraged, Burton smashed the glass, clawed out a tray of apple puffs, and ran. It was 1829. A lifelong battle between the unrestrainable appetites of Richard Francis Burton* and the tastes of Victorian England had been joined...
Facts of Life. Not everyone agreed. The Scotch whisky firm of Wm. Grant & Sons (famous in the U.S. for the slogan, "As long as you're up, get me a Grant's") obtained an injunction last week to restrain retailers from selling its products at discount prices while RPM is still in effect. Cadbury's at once stopped sending sweets to firms discounting their goods, and the National Chamber of Trade bravely promised to "move heaven and earth to prevent this bill being adopted...
Judge Hudson said yesterday that he is reading the book and will issue a preliminary order on Monday, which may "temporarily restrain" sales of the book until a trial and any appeals have been completed. According to Lee H. Kozol, Assistant Attorney General, prosecution of the book was recommended by the state's Obscene Literature Control Commission, and "it is at least an arguable issue," that the book should be banned...