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Modern Banking. The job was tailor-made for Meredith. All through his career -assistant professor of economics at Vermont University, Vermont State banking and insurance commissioner-he has been busy improvising modern banking methods for modern days. Joining National Life in 1935 as an investment analyst, he arrived shortly after the New Deal brought out its Federal Housing Administration to spur home building. While other money men cried socialism and hung back, Meredith turned National Life to investing in FHA, by 1946 had 42% of its money in government mortgages...
What Does a Tailor Do? For Israel's teachers such scenes are all too familiar. In the 20% of the schools that have mixed classes, the vast difference between the knowledge of the Europeans and the Orientals has become the nation's most frustrating educational problem. Many...
When asked "What does a tailor do?" the Oriental children are apt to answer: "Slaughters chickens." "makes shoes," or "builds houses." While in a fourth-grade reading test the Europeans missed only one word in every nine lines, the Orientals flubbed eleven. In a special intelligence test given 13-year-olds, the Europeans scored 51 out of a possible 60. The scores for the Kurds and Yemenites...
...enlightening article by Murray Kempton reprinted in your Sept. 3 "Judgments & Prophecies" says that Nixon ". . . had on a suit of shoddy which only the most expensive tailor could have cut to fit so badly." He "turned once to wave to Herbert Hoover to establish the true pedigree." (Which proves what? Guilt by association? And if so, guilty of what? Pro-Americanism?) Nixon "always did give the effect of having a great wad of unmelting butter stuffed next to his lower jawbone." Try to get your teeth into those facts! Perhaps it is only coincidence that this attack...
...banquet during the Suez conference in London (see FOREIGN NEWS), square-cut Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov turned up in a brand-new dinner jacket, set fellow diplomats and male fashion authorities to buzzing. A spokesman for Britain's dictatorial but often waggish Tailor and Cutter magazine ripped into Shepilov's ensemble with a piece-by-piece analysis. Of the pre-tied, hook-on bow tie: "If you don't have a valet to tie your tie, which regrettably many people don't, then you should tie it up yourself.'' Of the hang...