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NATURAL GAS BILL to ease Government control of prices stands almost no chance of passing Congress this year, though Administration backed down on its two proposed amendments to tighten price protection for consumers. Senate does not want to get bogged in hot gas controversy, and its Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee plans to delay hearings on bill until next year...
While the tax loss to the U.S. Government is still comparatively small, Congress fears that the idea may soon get out of hand. But though a few obviously unintended benefits may be knocked out, it will be difficult to tighten the tax laws much without seriously cutting the flow of funds to charities. The great problem for Congress: taxes have reached the point where it is worth almost any taxpayer's time and trouble to avoid the full weight...
...Faculty will probably rummage through the subject of the language requirement again next year, according to Dean Bundy, and it seems likely that there will be pressure to tighten the requirement so it will mean something...
...tell. Certainly scholarship money will always be available here for able students who have a pressing need, and Monro hastens to say, no one will be denied admission merely for the inability to pay the full cost. But a 20 per cent increase in students is going to tighten pressure on the Financial Aid Office, and an increase in loans rather than scholarships would be one way of relieving...
Bowing to pressure, the U.S. was prepared to reduce the number of embargoed items on the China list if the other nations agreed to tighten the escape clauses. But in three weeks of talk the British were adamant. France, West Germany and Japan were equally eager but not so outspoken. The U.S. argued that though China might get the same goods anyway through Russia, the added delay and cost retarded Chinese industrialization and imposed a strain on the trans-Siberian Railroad. The British retorted that most Western goods are transshipped by sea at Gdynia, Poland, are sent in Communist bottoms...