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...interior rhythms, cycles of public motion and private labor, of crisis and calm. Last week Richard Nixon began a new round of intense activity. At summer's end, congressional elections loomed in the middle distance, and for the first time Nixon saw his popularity in opinion polls dip below 50%. Campuses were reopening, bringing uneasy possibilities of violent dissent. The auto strike diluted optimism that the economy was at last beginning to right itself (see BUSINESS). And in the Middle East, earlier hopes for peace were rapidly unraveling. Nixon moved almost simultaneously on all fronts...
Premack's prime evidence is Sarah, a seven-year-old female chimp with a working "vocabulary" of more than 120 words. Sarah can not only comprehend the meaning of these words but can dip into her glossary to answer questions and build original sentences...
...steam last week. Having climbed nearly 70 points since mid-August, the blue-chip indicator dropped nine points and closed at 762, reflecting profit taking, worry over possible auto and railroad strikes and concern about the danger of a new explosion in the Middle East. Despite the dip, analysts are generally cheerful. As the market moves into its traditional post-Labor Day period of reappraisal -both of economic prospects and of individual portfolios-many Wall Streeters think that prospects for a gradual lessening of inflation, recovery of production and easing of tight money form a sound base for continued gains...
...loan associations. Reasons: the Federal Reserve Board has relaxed last year's squeeze on the money supply, and recession-wary consumers have reduced their spending and increased their savings. Still, demands for the limited supply of credit are so great that few moneymen expect mortgage rates to dip much below 8% in the near future. The frustrated home seeker who is waiting for a big drop in interest rates, construction costs or rents is almost sure to be disappointed...
...gain during the second quarter of the year; this is a 4% annual rate of gain, well above the average postwar advance of about 3.3% a year. The rise, however, resulted mostly from increasing layoffs. Unemployment in June fell to 4.7% from 5% the month before-the first dip in eight months-but the decline occurred almost entirely among adult women. The jobless rate among blacks rose from 8% to 8.7%; among black youths the rate is now 34%. Thus when Nixon's commission holds its first meeting later this month, its 23 members will confront a troublesome thicket...