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Tickets for a season of symphony concerts can run to real money. In Washing ton, D.C. last week, the National Symphony Orchestra announced a scheme for making the tariff ($67 top for the 26-concert season) easier to take. Through the cooperation of Washington's Hecht Co. department store, music lovers could order series tickets on their charge accounts, pay the piper when they settled for their millinery and haberdashery...
...intramural funds. One is to raise the price of participation tickets, but this would be just one more step in making education more expensive. Another would be to make the tickets compulsory for all undergraduates, as they now are for freshmen, but this would probably put an extra tariff on those students who can least afford a hike in expenses...
...notion of relief payments to U.S. manufacturers as a means of helping "foreigners" would have amazed 1930"s tariff-conscious U.S. citizen. But the logic was compelling and the need was real. 1950"s citizen, accepting the responsibility for a world he never made (but seemed to be charged with remaking) would probably take this newest oddity in stride...
...companies began diverting overseas production to the U.S. market, where there was also a surplus, independent producers were squeezed. They began demanding everything from a presidential embargo to a tariff boost on imported oil from 10½ to $1.05 a barrel. Frightened major companies cut back planned 1950 imports by as much...
...long walk from Dunster or Eliot House to Lamont at four in the morning. More undergraduates than ever are taking the walk this week, for the 75-cent tariff imposed by library officialdom on books returned late puts a high premium on mid-morning sleep...