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...championship last year, but injuries in their first two games made them easy pickings for Dartmouth, 41-9, and for Princeton two weeks later. Harvard, Yale and Cornell enjoyed victories at their expense as well, and this year Penn may have passed its peak. Only 15 lettermen return...
...that might have distorted the dwarf's light. But repeated observations produced the same results. Finally, Columbia University Astronomers Roger Angel and John Landstreet, told of the strange readings atop Pine Mountain, quickly verified them with more powerful telescopes and slightly different techniques at Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory...
Unemployment, now 5% of the labor force, stands at a five-year peak, and many experts predict a small additional rise this fall. Among those most affected are young people, who face difficulty getting hired at all. One unexpected result is that the Marines are attracting higher-quality volunteers. "They get out of college and can't find a job, so they join," says General Lewis Walt, assistant commandant. "We hope we can keep some of them...
Stein likes to keep close watch on social problems and political currents in order to sense more keenly how they may affect movements in the market. "In the late 1960s," he says, "we had a market that rose to a peak because it was built on speculation and hope. Then came the big decline, and millions of people got hurt. Today there is a return to conservatism in America. A majority of people cherish the forms of this society, but are fearful that they will be destroyed. Today they see nothing to make them hope. We are still...
...jobs for blacks by 1974. In Chicago last summer, union and black leaders announced that they would start putting at least 4,000 blacks into building trades unions. Although the Labor Department has granted $498,000 for training, only 75 blacks have been recruited-and the peak construction season is more than half over. The agreement has an "escape clause" that ties the unions' recruiting efforts to the state of the local economy. Since construction activity is slack, the unions do not want to train blacks for jobs that even whites cannot get. Moreover, Chicago blacks have been slow...