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...months at a fixed price. Thus, even if a wheat shortage drives world prices higher-as is likely-the Canadians must deliver at the original lower fixed price. And since Japan is one of the biggest and steadiest buyers of U.S. wheat, American dealers may be virtually compelled to trim their prices to Canada's. One official figures that the U.S. may lose some $60 million as a result of fixed-price deals in the near future...
Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, yesterday challenged Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy's attempts to trim the sweeping civil rights bill drafted by a House judiciary subcommittee...
...When they swung into action, the name was derisively changed to Whiz Kids. They switched Ford's capital, long left fallow, into interest-bearing accounts that promptly began earning Ford $4,500,000 a year, analyzed everything from assembly lines to suppliers' carburetors to learn how to trim costs, and set up the modern management techniques that are still used at Ford today...
Worn by about nine out of ten Harvard men, the Ivy look is smart and trim. It is supposed to make a man look masculine without the phoniness of padding. However, these effects are attained only by wearing a natural shoulder model which suits you. The Warwick model is slightly clubbier than the Andover model which hints of Madison Avenue. Both are appropriate for almost every occasion the college man encounters...
Taking a tip from pizazz-minded Detroit, Nordhoff has also brought out a 15005, which has more chrome trim than the standard 1500 and a 66-h.p. engine (v. the standard's 54 h.p.). So far, Nordhoff has not shipped any of the bigger Volkswagens to his best export market, the U.S.-though some have been brought in by returning tourists. He is in no hurry. Even without the new model, Volkswagen's sales in the U.S. rose 25% in 1963's first half, to 121,884 cars. Besides, demand for the 1500 is so great elsewhere...