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The article presents information on various political developments related to the U.S. The anti-Trust law recently enacted in Arkansas has been sustained by the Circuit Court of that State. In a unanimous opinion, it decided, a few days ago, that the Hartford Insurance Company was properly fined for one day's violation of the law forbidding such companies to do business in Arkansas if belonging to, a pool or combination anywhere to fix rates. The action of the Corporation of the Institute of Technology in voting, 20 to 12, for amalgamation with Harvard will undoubtedly increase the feeling of bitterness which the proposal has created among a great majority of the alumni.

The article offers information on the decline of business in the real estate industry in September 1971. It informs that the real estate business in September 1971 has declined to an annual rate of 1,958,000 units from 2,235,000 in August 1971. It is expected that the total value of new resident construction in 1971 will be 39.7 billion dollars as compared to 30.3 billion dollars in 1970. It also tells that the company ITT Levitt constructs one complete house at every hour.