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When Marshall found out his alumni poll would receive no further attention from the committee, he said, "In a year or two, when things simmer down a little, there night be a little more rationality about this...
...sharp with his claim that he knew Harlem's problems from having worked there twenty years in his father's shoe business. Harlem residents, for some reason, look not fondly on the white entrepreneurs who have for so long enjoyed such a strong presence in the ghetto. Left to simmer by itself, this attitude tends to be directed at the City's Jewish population, but Procaccino managed to remind Harlem that its oppressors include a few Italians...
...never had an idyllic marriage," says Cotner, but "whatever quarrels we had were always made up amicably after we'd had a chance to cool off." At least it remained that way through ten years of marriage. Then, in 1965, a family squabble took longer than usual to simmer down. While still angry, Mrs. Cotner decided to get back at her husband by filing a sodomy charge against him. But before the case came to court, Mrs. Cotner changed her mind and tried to withdraw her complaint. She was too late; the state said that it was a criminal...
...Simmer Down. To be sure, the stimulus will be selective: big-city banks, whose time deposits far exceed the $5,000,000 that qualifies for the Fed's lower 3% requirement, will find the new funds relatively less important. But the easing measure promises to give some breathing room to such hard-pressed sectors of the economy as housebuilding. In San Francisco, Bank of America President Rudolph Peterson welcomed the Federal Reserve Board's "help to stimulate expansion, particularly in the housing area," promptly cut rates for some home mortgages from...
...their determined efforts to maneuver between recession and further inflation, the Johnson Administration's economic policymakers have somehow managed with splendid impartiality to alienate some of the more important segments of Congress, labor, business, the banking community and the formidable fraternity of economists. Last week the simmer of discontent between economy molders and their critics heated up and nearly boiled over...