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...here have come to grips with that fact yet; fewer still have started to assess the possibilities of making a fresh start in a foreign land. Among most there is the vague and some-what naive assumption that this isn't the final thing but only a moment in their lives...
...Capacity? The Economic Report, bulwarked by the findings of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, assumes that while inflation remains a hazard, its main cause has shifted from excessive consumer demand to cost pressure on producers. Consumer prices now are expected to rise at a still troublesome but some-what slower rate than they did last year...
...unprepared for the unexpected gift that the donor almost gets away. In 1959, for example, Karl D. Umrath, a retired cash-register salesman, rang up the switchboard operator at St. Louis' Washington University one Saturday morning and told her that he wanted to give the university $1,000,000. Some-what dubious, the operator tried in vain to reach Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot, got no answers from several other officials. Umrath was just about to hang up when she finally connected him with the dean of the college of liberal arts. "I want to give a million dollars...
...other-arguments Baird advances are some-what more subtle and interesting. During the year, Harvard and Radcliffe students have enough time to "learn the ropes" and develop a sense of continuity. During the summer, girls do not have this sense of continuity and probably don't feel the restraints from "peer group sanctions" either. The result of a liberal policy would be that a group of relatively sheltered girls would arrive at Harvard and be unleashed. They wouldn't know how to use this freedom properly, Baird adds...
...letter to President Johnson, Lowell explained that he originally accepted the invitation to the arts festival "some-what rapidly and greedily." But every artist knows, he said, "that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making subtle public commitments...