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Those salesmen who already had outside addresses do have a legitimate quarrel. They can argue, and rightly, that the University's Solicitation Committee should not withdraw or withhold their right to sell in dormitories simply because they have not joined a firm which offers them no particular benefits. It seems clear that such "join-or-lose-your-franchise" threats have been at least implied, if not explicitly stated...
This development has been fostered under section of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, intended to prevent the secrecy which it has shielded. Executive departments have misused two loopholes in the statute in much the same way that tax evaders withhold information on their earnings...
...might take to "improve the Federal budgetary situation." He zeroed in on that granddaddy of all pork barrels, the rivers and harbors bill, by urging Congress to "reject new projects not approved by the Board of Engineers," to provide for "more local participation in approved projects,?' and to "withhold authorization and construction of all but urgently needed projects." He asked Congress to "establish interest rates for Government loan programs that will induce private funds to participate in their financing." He plugged for postal-rate increases and argued for user charges (levied against plane operators) on federal airway facilities...
...whole training program paid off so well that the A.S.U. seems almost afraid its swimmers may relax and float on their laurels. When Lainy Crapp and Dawn Fraser were invited to Hawaii's Keo Nakama meet to be held in July the A.S.U. threatened to withhold its approval unless both girls prove that they are in top shape. "They're Olympic champions," said an A.S.U. official-just as if any Australian had forgotten. "We don't want them to jeopardize their chances by competing out of condition...
Britain and Japan, both in economic straits and hungry for trade, have been casting an eye at the Red China market. The United States' policy, banning all American trade with Red China and keeping pressure on its allies to withhold from Red China any goods which could be used for war, remains unchanged...