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...quest of the U.S. military for tactical devices to implement the "claw" policy resembles rather closely the search of the fabled scientist for a universal solvent...
...porch waiting for spring. If he needed spare cash, he could act like a businessman. Then eager-beaver bushers discovered a gold mine: the winter leagues. Across the Caribbean, from Cuba to Colombia, hotheaded Latins were paying good money to watch the Great American Game. A man could keep solvent, keep warm, and keep in practice all winter. Best of all, he could keep on playing baseball...
Upon examination, however, it is obvious that the admission price is both unfair and insulting to the Radcliffe freshmen. It is gross exploitation for the Key to make money on the poise, charm, and dancing ability of the girls who are the attraction for solvent Harvards. But this exploitation is nothing compared to the insult implicit in assessing at fifty cents an introduction to the girls possessing these gentle qualities. They would be cheap at twice the price...
...situation is different at Yale, Princeton, and most other American colleges and universities. At New Haven, for example, the Yale Alumni Magazine is published independently t be sure, but usually goes far into the red and needs a yearly subsidy from the university to remain solvent. Princeton, meanwhile, has a complicated system whereby a varying portion of the alumnus's class contribution buys his subscription to the Alumni Weekly, and consequently all Nassau alumni are compulsory subscribers to the publication...
...banker, Hughes studied federal spending, helped prepare a 278-page book, A Tax Program for a Solvent America. As budget director (at $17,500 a year), Hughes will sit in with the Cabinet and top-level National Security Council, check spending and prepare future budgets. He promises to cut spending if possible, but knows, as he once said, that "there is no easy, automatic formula...