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Endicott attributed the general rise in openings to the state of the nation's economy. "Companies in general were uncertain about investing in college graduates until there was an upward trend in the economy. All this is the reaction to improved business conditions," he said yesterday
...economists assembled a few days ago, they said that the economy's fresh momentum led them to even higher predictions. Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at Washington's Brookings Institution, asserted somewhat hyperbolically that the night before the meeting he had been revising his predictions upward "every hour on the hour...
...last, on Oct. 26, Kissinger made his now famous misstatement: "Peace is at hand" in Viet Nam. The world's hopes soared, the stock market leaped upward with Kissinger's declaration: "What remains to be done can be settled in one more negotiating session with the North Vietnamese negotiators, lasting, I would think, no more than three or four days." But between Oct. 26 and Dec. 16, the settlement that both sides had supposedly agreed upon disastrously unraveled. Kissinger blamed the North Vietnamese for the impasse, and in calculated anger, the President unleashed the most massive bombing of North Viet...
...Shea); an aging Jewish couple (Shelley Winters and Jack Albertson) en route to the holy land; a timid haberdasher (Red Buttons); a willowy rock singer (Carol Lynley); and a plucky waiter (Roddy McDowall). With God as his copilot, and with a good deal of muscle, Hackman leads them ever upward, through sets that look as tortuous as a miniature golf course...
...have not increased it in the present economic upsurge. A study by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee staff charged that a few JOBS employers used federal money to hire uneducated, foreign-born hopefuls for dead-end jobs-although the companies were supposed to train them for jobs with upward mobility...