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Vice President Richard Nixon's espousal of a policy of calculated coolness toward Latin American strongmen got a warm and friendly reading even in the Dominican Republic, where Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo runs the oldest (28 years) and tightest dictatorship in the non-Communist world. Keeping its usual firm hammerlock on reality, the government radio station in Ciudad Trujillo, La Voz Dominicana, explained: "We are not certain, but it seems logical that Nixon was alluding to the pathetic case of Puerto Rico, and to the dictatorship exerted over that unfortunate island by Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
Back from a recess that revealed most constituents calm and cautious (TIME, April 14), buoyed by the President's stinging vetoes and preachments against panic, the G.O.P., with the session's tightest discipline, was earnestly tossing roadblocks into the path of the freewheeling Democratic majority...
...that the way of the straw boss is hard. I wish the distinguished minority leader had seen fit to put this power play into operation while the distinguished majority leader was on the floor and in charge." But Mansfield overlooked one point. Republicans, however small their victory, exhibited the tightest White House-to-Senate leadership-to-floor teamwork displayed so far this season...
...Yale should win, they will finish in second and drop the varsity to fifth, in what has proved to be the tightest race in Ivy League wrestling history...
...Treasury is often unable to take advantage of fluctuating short-term interest rates to refund big amounts of the debt lest it go through the ceiling, must often borrow at times during the year when seasonal demands of business make money tightest and most expensive. Another problem is that such independent borrowers as Fannie May usually cost the U.S. more in the long run. With a lower credit rating, Fannie May pays an average 3.96% interest for the money it borrows v. an average 2.78% for the Treasury itself. The ceiling also costs the U.S. money in departments that have...