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...sharpest and most persistent criticism of the committee's proposals came from Fletcher G. Watson, Shattuck Professor of Education, and David V. Tiedeman, professor of Education...
...with the prisoners in Burgos." And among Spain's 2,000,000 fiercely independent Basques (another 150,000 are across the border in France), unity is rare. Living in Spain's most prosperous region and enjoying a deserved reputation as the country's sharpest businessmen, the majority of Basques have never paid much heed to the E.T.A., with its blind hatred of espafiolismo (anything Spanish) and imperialismo (virtually anything American), and its rather fanciful talk of a separate Basque state...
...usual, the stock market got a lift from the rate reduction. Moving up on every trading day of the short Thanksgiving week, the Dow-Jones industrial average gained 20 points to close at 781, its highest in seven weeks. The bond market experienced one of the sharpest price rallies in decades. In two weeks, many investors have made paper profits of $45 to $50 on each $1,000 bond. Last week South Central Bell Telephone Co. brought out a $150 million issue of debentures yielding only 8.14% interest, the lowest on a long-term Bell System bond in more than...
Still another quarterback is sophomore Frank Guerra, who has been largely discounted by the coaches because of his size even though he may be the team's sharpest strategist...
...still not very robust. The most comprehensive indicator of prices, the so-called G.N.P. price deflator, rose at an annual rate of 4.4% in the third quarter, less than last winter but slightly more than in the second quarter. And, significantly, industrial production fell last month by 1.7%, the sharpest drop in ten years; even if General Motors' workers had not gone on strike (see story, following page), output would have been down by at least one-half...