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...branches overseas. If it is a member of the Federal Reserve System, it can also appeal to "the lender of last resort"-the system's discount window. The price is high. Besides paying interest, currently 51%, the bank must submit to scrutiny that is even closer than usual. As a result, only 1% of credit extended to the banks has been passing through the Fed's discount window in recent years...
France's third heart-transplant patient is a man to whom the ethics and morality of the procedure are of more than usual concern. Father Damien Boulogne is a former professor of philosophy at Dominican seminaries. Two years ago, the priest had suffered a series of heart attacks that left him to tally disabled. Now 57, Father Damien got his new heart at the Hôpital Broussais-La Charité in Paris, where he is now recovering in sterile isolation. From there he wrote for La Vie Catholiqué an account of the soul-searching that preceded...
...policy. The surtax will have some bad effects for companies: it will cut into corporate profits and decrease spending for improvements. At the same time, the new tax ought to make some change in the tenor of company-union relations. Up to now, when labor negotiations are fiercer than usual, the advantage has been with labor. With full employment and rising prices, unions have been able to negotiate contracts with an average increase of 5% or 6% in wages. The surtax may change this. Economists estimate that one effect will be to in crease unemployment from 3.5% of the labor...
...Controllers Organization, which embraces half the U.S.'s. 14,500 controllers and hires Lawyer-Pilot F. Lee Bailey as general counsel, announced that it would start playing everything by the book-a set of rules that controllers often ignore. By spacing planes four miles apart instead of the usual three, the controllers managed to slow traffic by 30%. Because private planes use up only half a runway, controllers usually allow them to land simultaneously with a jet on intersecting runways, a practice forbidden by the FAA. The old rule went back into effect...
There was the usual air of informality--a woman breastfeeding her baby, a couple of small groups formed around guitars, some people standing, some sitting, some rolling around in lovelocked pairs, and some sleeping...