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...affair is far from over. The Department of Agriculture is studying measures to tighten up the easy rules for trading in grains, oils, pork bellies and other commodities. A wide variety of companies and individuals have filed a total of 160 damage claims contending that Tino De Angelis took them for $219 million...
...Tighten up controls over pill-type drugs. Last week the House passed, 402 to 0, and sent to the Senate a bill requiring that records be kept, from lab to drugstore, on sales of barbiturates ("goofballs") and amphetamines. Illicit sales of such drugs to persons under 21 could be punished by two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, v. one year in prison and a $1,000 fine at present. For the narcotics addict who peddles dope mainly to finance his habit, a civil commitment statute under preparation would provide for rehabilitation rather than incarceration. - Halt mail-order...
...foliage of London's Regent's Park. Though an official spokesman insisted "he's not dangerous," all London was alarmed, and telephone switchboards were soon jammed by the tipsters and the fearful. Gawkers flocked to the park by the thousands as the dragnet began to tighten. Radio trucks and prowl cars moved in, and giant searchlights were brought up to illuminate the park at night...
...History Department has "reluctantly" decided to tighten the requirements for honors candidates, Elliott Perkins '23, Head Tutor of the History Department, said last night...
...leading to a U.S. withdrawal from South Viet Nam inspired an international supposition that the U.S. would actually succumb to such pressure. But President Lyndon Johnson, without saying a public word on the subject, was more determined than ever to remain in Viet Nam-and, thread by thread, to tighten the screw against the Communist aggressors...