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...home, which seemed to preoccupy Washington last week, the U.S.'s most stubborn economic problem of 1966 is proving to be its eight-year-old balance of payments deficit. Directly or indirectly, that deficit-the excess of dollars spent abroad over dollars earned there-has already helped stall negotiations for world monetary reform, caused U.S. corporations to invade the European market for dollar bonds, prompted Charles de Gaulle to keep cashing in France's dollars for U.S. gold at a $33 million-a-month clip. Last week the Administration got more bad news: imports are climbing so fast...
...Duke: an incredible 21-20 basketball victory over North Carolina in the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference's playoffs; at Raleigh, N.C. Hoping to upset the No. 3-ranked Blue Devils, who have averaged 86 points a game, North Carolina went into a deliberate stall, thus producing one of the lowest scoring games in years...
...gather that to the many other arts has now been added the art of the book-jacket....To stand by any book-stall or to enter any book-shop is to witness a terrific scene of Internecine warfare between the Innumerable latest volumes, almost all of them violently vying with one another for one's attention, fiercely striving to outdo the rest in crudity of design and of colour. It is rather like visiting the parrot-house in the Zoological Gardens, save that there one can at least stop one's ears with one's fingers, whereas here one merely...
Soon after New Year's, Johnson will have to decide whether to 1) stall, 2) ask Congress to erase all or part of the income tax reductions for which he battled last year, 3) seek new revenues from excess profit taxes and imposts on luxuries (as Harry Truman did to finance the Korean War) or 4) try a relatively painless palliative such as increasing the amount of income tax withheld from paychecks or accelerating corporate tax payments. Whatever the solution, catching up with the rabbit may not be the easiest of encounters for Lyndon Johnson...
...last year's contest with Davenport, tow pass interceptions were instrumental in setting up Leverett's 14-6 victory. In the crucial Winthrop game this year, Bunny defenses picked up a fumble on their own 17-yard line to stall what might have been a game-winning drive...