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...Tories are appealing not to the Briton's traditional ability to tighten his belt, but-and profoundly-to his sense of human and national greatness...
Something to Shout About. As for cheating, it is also apparently universal. Yale, troubled by the manners, rudeness and "easy moral standards" of some students, felt forced to issue a warning that it was about to "tighten up." Other colleges and universities already had their own tight controls...
...would take some stirring. The banking committees of both houses had held six weeks of hearings, heard more than a hundred witnesses, and had barely gotten down to writing a bill. They showed little sympathy for the President's request for authority to stiffen rent controls and to tighten credit. Likeliest action: a last-minute 30-to-60-day extension of the present...
...enthusiasm for visual aids, which he had developed as No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. ("After all," complained one professor, "he did make that startling prediction that only 5% of the people would be reading books in 50 years"). Some students resented his attempts to tighten up Rollins' traditionally free & easy ways...
...also moved to tighten up bank credit in another way. It announced a twelve-man Voluntary Credit Restraint Committee (four members each from insurance companies, commercial banks and investment banks), to try to get all big U.S. lenders to clamp down on loans not vital to defense, thus help check inflation. Few expected this to be very effective in actually reducing business loans (which in New York last week soared to a new high of $6.7 billion); but FRB wanted to make he gesture before resorting to new compulsory restraints...