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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council graciously ignored whatever slight was involved and invited you all to use the "renovated course...at the revised greens fees...
...Alfred proudly, "and we've been accepted by the mathematical fraternity." Mathematician Verner Hoggatt Jr., editor of the Quarterly, has gone to the extent of establishing the Fibonacci Bibliographical and Research Center at San Jose State College. He tours schools to lecture on Fibonacci numbers, vigorously advocates their use in teaching and has compiled a remarkable dossier on Fibonaccia...
...time." He suggested that the Vatican might well establish a secretariat on hypocrisy to deal with Catholics who attend Mass and "even give the correct answers" but who "do not really have a living belief which motivates their life." Against such believers, asked Cox, "how can we really use the label 'unbeliever' for people whose search for the transcendent is somehow more serious and many times more ardent? They may think of themselves as Marxists or scientific humanists or behaviorists, but 'nonbelievers' is not the name by which they know themselves in their own hearts...
Meanwhile, the undertaxation of land helps speculators hold property out of use while they wait for a city's growth to raise its price. As buildings leapfrog around the holdouts, other taxpayers generally have to foot the bill for the costly roads, water and sewer lines that make land richly salable. In addition to encouraging the growth of "slurbs"-half-city, half-country belts with the worst features of both - the process has driven up costs of homesites by 68% in the past eight years, forcing many families out of the market. "Today's property tax," says Robert...
...companies in entirely different fields. Mitchell's chief trustbuster, Richard McLaren, plans to invoke the Clayton Antitrust Act's Section Seven, which prohibits corporate acquisitions that substantially lessen competition. He may well cite the anti-competitive potential of reciprocal purchasing arrangements, under which LTV subsidiaries, which use large amounts of steel, might favor J. & L. rather than go to the marketplace for the best deal. Beyond that, McLaren may argue that competition is lessened by the sheer concentration of economic power that results from conglomerate mergers...