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Added Crunch. Beyond that, administrators of the Government's federally insured student-loan program can already see the bad news reflected in a spurt of new loan applications. The added crunch comes at a time when tight money and the failure by Congress to adjust the loan program to the current money market threaten thousands of college and university students...
...beneath it advertised extra-large cantaloupes at three for 89?. A Long Island harness-racing track accompanied a picture of an astronaut stepping off the base of an LM mockup with the advice: "Hey, finish it later-Roosevelt Raceway opens tomorrow night." TWA and Pan Am eagerly accepted a spurt of new applications for the first commercial flights to the moon; one recent booking was made by California's Governor Ronald Reagan. Medals, pennants and assorted trinkets suddenly developed a moon motif-and found hordes of eager customers...
...source in the Director's office said yesterday that the "Do Your Thing" nights in the Union will provide a "mixer substitute" for those stranded, starved, and overheated in Cambridge this summer. Associate Social Director John Tolleson fathered the three Friday night galas in response to a spurt of requests for more mixers...
...solution lies in raising land taxes. Southfield, Mich., has just demonstrated that the idea works. Five years ago, the city was listed as a depressed area. Then it boosted the tax on land and cut the tax on buildings by reassessing them. In the resulting building spurt, Southfield has been constructing office space faster than neighboring Detroit, a city 30 times its size. Said Assessor G. Ted Gwartney: "All we had to do was throw off the shackles...
Astronaut's-Eye View. Early in the mission, the astronauts trained a movie camera on the discarded third-stage S-4B rocket while it orbited near by and recorded the sudden and startling spurt of flame as its engine was fired to shove it out of the way and into a permanent orbit around the sun. In a sequence showing Spider undocking from Gumdrop, Spider moved slowly away and then began a smooth and graceful demonstration of its maneuverability...