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Harvard Economist Sumner Slich-ter, who has proved an accurate prophet in the postwar years, outlined what tax cuts could mean. Said he: "A $4,000-a-year man might well be living like a $5,000-a-year man. Or, putting it another way, it might enable people to live on a scale in 1956 or 1957 that they hadn't considered possible before 1960." Said Chairman Arthur Burns of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "A large-scale reduction or elimination of armaments would give us a magnificent and welcome opportunity for raising living standards...
...Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, said yesterday the American system of industrial relations "would probably not work anywhere else but it gives the American worker better protection and it puts American employers under greater pressure. . . to raise productivity...
...Sumner reversed his decision following a conference with Serge Routourline, Jr. '54, who was in charge of the Square Book enterprise. A joint statement of the two said that the misunderstanding occurred because of the inability of Bontourline to control the activities of one of his salesmen...
Harvard Square Book coupons will be accepted at the University Theatre weekdays until February 1. Stanley Sumner, U.T. manager announced recently...
Previously Sumner had refused to accept the coupons, which entitle the bearer to two theatre admissions for the price of one. At that time he said an agreement that the coupon books would be sold for only one day and only to Harvard students had not been kept, and therefore he was not legally bound to accept the coupons...