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...graduate schools. Joel Fleishman, the moving force behind this summer's program, has suggested that Ivy League schools form a "consortium" with other universities, and work through established white institutions in the South to extend more staff fund to Negro colleges. He hopes that the energy and innovation may "rub off" or "ricochet" from North to South in a "cooperative educational exchange...
...bank in the U.S. had lifted its minimum rate on commercial loans ½%-to 5% or more. Interest rates on home mortgages jumped by at least 0.1% in many areas; in Chicago the typical rate climbed from 5½% to 5¾%. Auto buyers will begin to feel the rub next month-not from higher interest rates but from slightly higher prices in some cities. Reason: major finance companies, California's giant Bank of America and several Philadelphia banks boosted from 5% to 5½% the rate that they charge to bankroll stocks of cars in dealers' hands...
...Popular party. He was talking about Belaúnde's land-reform program-the sensible, carefully thought-out plan that, when it was signed into law 19 months ago, was hailed by experts as the soundest ever set up in the hemisphere. For many Peruvians, the rub is that the project to settle 1,000,000 peasants on their own land and double the country's acreage under cultivation will take at least a decade, and more likely 20 years. They are not willing to wait that long...
...pany collects 2% on all Koratron-treated material, then another 1% on every garment. It requires that the Koratron trademark be prominently shown on garments, backs up the tag with a snappy advertising campaign and a quality-control program in which Koratron technicians wash, pull, rip and rub samples to make certain that they crease as they should. The company moves swiftly against patent infringements, recently won a consent decree against Los Angeles' Swede Co. for selling Koratron-processed goods without paying royalties...
...Prologue to Ben Jonson's Volpone promises to "rub your cheeks on, red with laughter. They shall look fresh a week after." The opening of Volpone at Brandeis University's new theatre has produced a curious combination not open admiration, long-lasting laughter, and problems which will last considerably longer than one week...