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...only possible effects of this article will be to embarrass the doctor involved and to encourage the administration to tighten regulations concerning medical excuses. No one stands to benefit from either of these...
...moves to tighten Mrs. Gandhi's grip on India came at a time when some observers had hoped for at least a symbolic relaxation of restrictions. Mrs. Gandhi's supporters insist that she could win an open election handily right now. She insists just as strongly that it is more important to carry out the reforms proposed in her 20-point economic and social program, such as abolition of indentured labor, land redistribution and expanded irrigation networks. That may be so. But her determination to quash all opposition suggests that she does not dare to risk a genuine...
Illegal Fund. The financial free-for-all continued through 1971, when an other federal law tried to tighten the rules a notch by requiring that a candidate disclose the name of anyone giving him $100 or more. That measure did not go into effect until April 7, 1972. By that time the most successful, ruthless, unethical and in some ways illegal fund raising campaign on record was already cresting. In all, Richard Nixon was estimated to have raised a staggering $70 million for his successful race for re-election against the challenge of George McGovern, who managed to accumulate nearly...
Store 24 will tighten its current security measures and consider additional ones in response to the robbery, the third since its opening two years ago, Jim L. Shiver-decker, store manager, said yesterday...
...Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office of Fiscal Service, said yesterday that Harvard, with a delinquency rate of about 19 per cent, has been working for a number of years to tighten loan collection procedures, and does not plan any new procedures this year...