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...shortest academic month of the year was nevertheless a busy one--before students went home to see what the holidays would bring, the University had some other surprises in store...
...Richard son's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the famous faces are re-created in the crude broad strokes of Halloween masks; ABC rightly assumes that TV's chosen audience, the young, won't know the difference. Of all the Big Names the one who gets the shortest shrift is Mamie...
...every 4 B.T.U.s of energy that are used to make alcohol, only 2.5 B.T.U.s are generated. Advocates argue that is not the point. Alcohol, they say, offers a way to boost stockpiles of liquid fuels, which are all that can be used in autos and which are in shortest supply...
Paul Samuelson, 63, economist, Belmont, Mass. He points to studies going back to the 1920s to show that "putting money out at the shortest intervals has been the best hedge against inflation." So Samuelson recommends that investors place their cash in six-month certificates of deposit in savings banks; or in the money-market funds-open-ended mutual funds that invest in short-term securities such as certificates of deposit, commercial paper and Treasury bills-that offer check-writing privileges...
...have the shortest business meeting of any solvent organization in the United States," says Richardson, who was honored last year by the Society on the 25th anniversary of his victorious Beanpot netminding in 1953. The treasurer's report lasts 15 seconds and the president's address under a minute before the real business at hand--nostalgia--gets under...