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...Democratic National Convention in July, the phrase "boycott lettuce" became almost a password. It fell fervently from the lips of any number of heads of delegations, and it was finally consummated as a cause when Ted Kennedy, at the peak of convention excitement, began his speech: "Greetings, fellow lettuce boycotters...
...strange behavior has nothing to do with the economy at all; the often-approached but never-broken 1,000 mark* has become a psychological barrier. Every time the Dow gets near that level some investors sell, believing that the value of their securities is reaching a peak. Now, 974 has evidently become the point at which the warning signal starts flashing in their minds. Says William Freund, chief economist for the New York Stock Exchange: "There is a sort of folklore about the Dow, and 1,000 is a roadblock in the minds of many people...
...February, only about half the students working for HSA catering were on scholarship. During Christmas and summer in 1971, HSA catering employed a few people who had absolutely no affiliation with the University. "During a very peak season, there may have been one or two employees who are not Harvard students. When I was made aware that that happened, those employees got no more jobs." Ryan said, "What we have to do is make better efforts earlier to recruit people to work over Christmas...
McCarthy reasoned that this method "would test the humility of the person who would accept the vice-presidential nomination knowing that by doing so he had eliminated himself from direct consideration for the presidency." McCarthy had tossed out much the same idea in a radio interview at the peak of vice-presidential speculation during the Democratic Convention. Said he: "You know, in some tribes they pick the purest man in the tribe and then have him pick the chief." The Swiftian modesty of proposing the Vice President as kingmaker is resonant with possibilities: What if the choice were left...
...they need frequent recharging and deliver relatively little energy for their size and weight. Enough of them to power an electric car would weigh as much as an entire conventional automobile. Furthermore, there is little room for improvement; lead-acid batteries have already been developed close to their theoretical peak. Other batteries using different materials-nickel and cadmium, zinc and silver, or sodium and sulfur-have greater energy density, but they have not yet proved practical either, largely because of high costs...