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Enrollment in the Summer School reached its peak in 1969, when about 5000 students attended. Since then enrollment has dropped steadily, averaging a 10 per cent drop each year...
...years-triggered a series of landslides that killed at least 100 people and left another 71 missing. The highest death toll was recorded in the Kowloon quarter, across Hong Kong harbor, where slides swept away a squatters' village. Three buildings on Hong Kong's Victoria Peak, where many of the colony's most expensive residential areas are situated, were also destroyed. One twelve-story building, with all its lights burning, seemed to tilt slowly before it plunged down the hillside like an ocean liner sinking at sea. Government officials worried about a potential threat to other buildings...
...fueled by rising incomes, growing confidence in the economy and the food-stamp program, among other things-will increase further, driving prices above their already record levels. They are thus keeping unusually large numbers of steers in feed lots and on farms, waiting for a yet-un-reached market peak. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz is encouraging this game by conducting a campaign against "cheap-food advocates" that borders on rabble-rousing...
Detroit's selling spree. American Motors' Gremlin is in short supply, forcing some customers to wait an extra five weeks for delivery. For the past two months, production of the Vega at Chevy's recently struck Lordstown, Ohio, plant has been at a peak level of 101 cars an hour. Ford's Pinto is the speediest seller of all: 175,000 in the first five months of 1972 v. 131,000 in the same period of 1971. Pinto benefited especially from the introduction early this year of a mini-station wagon that resembles Ford...
...loftiest aspirations: a test of mettle, a purification of the soul, a reach for the heavens. George Leigh Mallory, asked why he wished to climb Mount Everest, solemnly replied, "Because it is there." If asked the same question, the most recent adventurers to tackle the peak would probably respond differently: "Because we want to beat the guy from the other country...