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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton's hard-charging line is led by center forward Tom Baskett and left wing Jim Hicks. The Tigers use an attack similar to the Crimson's, with short, accurate passes and emphasis on ball control. However, Princeton relies on its wings to a greater extent than the varsity...
...result, according to Faculty sources, fell somewhat short of outright rejection of all affidavits. Some professors commented that the multiplicity of votes was "bewildering" and that no one really knew precisely what had happened...
...policy is good, and the Treasury is doing all it can.'' The real villain, he says, is Congress. It has refused to raise the 47% ceiling rate on long-term Treasury bonds, thus forced the Treasury to do its financing at competitive rates in the short-term market, to which private borrowers are turning in increasing numbers to get their money. The Treasury has thus sopped up billions-and within a year forced up the rates on short-term loans to nearly double their previous level (see chart). "The Secretary of the Treasury doesn't want...
...strong upward force is unlikely." He does not think that tight money will harm the boom: "The supply of money and credit is not exhausted. The banking system is heavily loaned, but not loaned up." He is not concerned about high money rates, points out that for long periods short-term rates wrere actually above long-term yields. Says he: "If we are to preserve our free economy, that has to be expected, and it is exactly the right medicine to forestall inflation. After 20 years of abnormally low rates, present rates are in the area of normal rates...
...writes. "It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer." In this book, Author Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) sets aside the arduous business of novel writing and takes up horticulture. His first book in four years is a rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from a new one-a mammoth work which Mailer says will probably take ten years to write and may be unprintable. Judging from the excerpts offered, its title should be The Nude and the Stewed...