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...called, is essentially manned by one scholar, retired English Professor Frederick Pottle, 79 (who has, however, a staff of four helpers). A stooped, sprightly man given to suspenders and tweed jackets, Pottle pursues his life's work in a dusty room in the main Sterling Library, cluttered with index cards, legal pads and old pharmacy lamps. He started in 1924 with a doctoral bibliography on Boswell, then went to do research work at the Long Island estate of wealthy Collector Colonel Ralph Isham, who had bought the bulk of the Boswell papers from Boswell's heirs. Yale purchased...
...measure, at least, double-digit inflation is back. As Jimmy Carter and his economic aides were busily polishing the much trumpeted anti-inflation program he plans to announce this week, the Labor Department reported that the Wholesale Price Index rose 1.1% in March, the biggest jump since the bleak old days of October 1975. That translated into an annual rate of 14%, and was the second straight month of double-digit rise. Just this sort of news, and fear of more, has sent the stock market tumbling 8.5% so far this year. It continued to slide last week, although...
...month low and a drop of 80 points since the start of the year; it rebounded to 927 on Friday. The market sagged despite bullish economic news. The nation's unemployment rate in March dropped to 7.3%, from February's 7.5%. The Commerce Department's index of leading indicators, a harbinger of growth, rose four-tenths of a percent in February, partially recouping January's loss and showing that the long midwinter freeze in the big industrial states would not have any lasting dampening effect on the U.S. economy...
...economic news last week resembled an early spring weather report: mostly bright sunshine, but with a chilly wind to serve as an unwelcome reminder of the bitter winter. The wind was inflation, which leaped to an annual rate of 12.7% in February as measured by the Consumer Price Index, even worse than the 10% pace of January. By far the biggest rise came in food prices, largely reflecting fruit and vegetable shortages caused by January's crop-killing cold. Though most economists expect the rate to fall in coming months-they think the underlying pace...
...students drew lots last December after Paynter received enough funds for only three of the five seminar participants. He placed five numbered index cards face down on a table and those students that drew one, two and three won the right...