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...affirmation on loyalty represented a politically inspired interference with the independence of the University. By its hasty actions in this case, the University has unwittingly supported a statute that singles out teachers as a group whose loyalties are particularly suspect. Harvard has acknowledged that the Commonwealth can tamper freely with its affairs. This is absolutely contrary to the University's usual defense of its Faculty's autonomy...
...Marxists and the socialists, Keynes opposed government ownership of industry and fought those centralists who would plan everything ("They wish to serve not God but the devil"). While he called for conscious and calculated state intervention, he argued just as passionately that the government had no right to tamper with individual freedoms to choose or change jobs, to buy or sell goods, or to earn respectable profits. He had tremendous faith that private men could change, improve and expand capitalism...
...shareholders will be paid upwards of $50 million in McGraw-Hill stock, which sold last week at 49½ a share. McGraw-Hill plans no major changes in S. & P.'s operations. "You don't take a sound, successful business like Standard & Poor's and tamper with it," says Executive Vice President Robert Slaughter. As an institution in the financial world, S. & P. will retain its own offices in Wall Street, continue to issue its financial reports under its own name...
...major question facing the negotiators was which paper would get the more profitable morning market. Thieriot demanded that position for his bigger and more successful paper. Randy Hearst, who was joined in the negotiations by his brother William, head of the family's nationwide chain, was reluctant to tamper with the Examiner, which had been their father's favorite paper as well as his first one. In the end, however, sentiment gave way to the survival instinct...
Consumers' intentions to buy new cars in the next few months are just as high as ever, reports the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center. Whether they will remain high will hinge largely on how well the '66 styling goes over. Unwilling to tamper with styling that has worked so well, Detroit plans no big dramatic changes. The trends will be to even more luxury options (example: a push-button system that enables the driver to set his car to a given speed and cruise without touching the accelerator), more powerful engines, longer bodies, less chrome...