Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tighter Grip...
...Harvard wrestling team took a tighter grip on the Ivy League lead with a 24-12 win over Penn Saturday afternoon. Friday, the track team collapsed Northeastern's hopes, 79-30. Saturday night, the Crimson's two-mile relay team set a Harvard record in the Boston Garden K. of C. Meet. Harvard swimmers fell before Dartmouth's powerful squad, 57-38, at the IAB Saturday. Accounts of these events will appear in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
Lyndon Johnson is usually quieter at this time of year because he is a man who likes to preserve his options, but this year the lid is tighter than ever -probably because the options are fewer and harder to choose among. Last year, Cabinet members and top Administration brass headed straight from their ranch-house sessions to brief reporters on spending plans or to tell the press of the President's thinking on the progress and problems of the year past...
...good omen for the future of the young'uns down in Connecticut, though we never had their distance problem when we were courting. But all good love stories bring back fond memories, and when Radcliffe brings us our slippers tonight. we'll hold her hand just a little tighter thinking about kid brother and his girl sighing, waving, and squinting at each each other through the blue mist of the Connecticut hills. We know what they're after. And we like...
Apparent Signs. At the beginning of the year, there was a chance to cool the economy's growing inflationary fever through a combination of moderately higher taxes and slightly tighter money. With an election in the offing, the President chose not to raise taxes then. With that, the Federal Reserve Board felt compelled to carry the entire burden of dampening inflation. Using tight money as its weapon, the board drove interest awfully high awfully fast. Result: while the economy is still laboring under inflationary pressures, largely because of war-spending, it has simultaneously begun to slow down...