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Since he took over seven years ago, Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend, an accountant rather than an operating man, has introduced just about the tightest cost controls in the auto industry-even while approving major new spending for additional facilities. In the past three years alone, Chrysler has appropriated $798 million for new plant and equipment. Space has been increased by 14 million sq. ft., or 30%, and Chrysler is making more and more of its own parts, instead of depending on outside suppliers...
...five, Vellucci was in the tightest spot. He was voting to fire a fellow Italian-American, in a city where ethnic ties can still swing a lot of votes. Accordingly, he returned to a tried and true theme: "Save DeGug, save DeGug--how can I save DeGug when I'm trying to save a hospital for the mothers of Cambridge," he roared, recounting how he had tried to have the City's maternity ward moved to the seventh floor of the new City hospital which, he said, DeGuglielmo let Harvard have for "experiments on dogs,...cats...and monkeys...
Both reactions are a portent of the growing mood of neo-isolationism in the nation. Thus far, the feeling has been most clearly evident on Capitol Hill, where an influential coterie of Senators led by Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen and Majority Whip Russell Long are pressing for the tightest protection of U.S. goods since the bad old days of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff.* If the protectionist Senators-dubbed "the coalition of retreat" by Hubert Humphrey-were to succeed, they would impose strict quotas on more than 75% of dutiable U.S. imports...
...tightest game should be at Ithaca, N.Y., where undefeated Cornell and undefeated Princeton will battle for the Ivy League lead. The Big Red has hidden in upstate New York all fall and remains somewhat an unknown quantity, with a rookie quarterback pacing victories over Bucknell and Colgate. After wins over Rutgers and Columbia the Tigers are a known title pretender, but from this far out on the limb I see a surprise 23-21 decision for Cornell...
...December 1965 and 1966, in the absence of a major tax increase by the Administration, which took steps to increase interest rates and make money more difficult to borrow in order to reduce inflationary pressures. The result was the tightest credit situation in the U.S. in 40 years; the housing industry was particularly hard hit by the absence of mortgage money. This approach hurt the sections of society which were least able to bear it economically: small businessmen, farmers, and homebuyers...