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...value of all U.S. stocks plunged by 13% to $587.4 billion. But the funds' portfolios dipped only 7%, which left them in fine shape to lead the bargain-hunting charge that, more than anything else, has accounted for the 1967 market's bullish big volume and upward movement...
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) predicted yesterday that Harvard's Upward Bound program would receive increased amounts of federal support for the fiscal year...
...National Upward Bound recently announced a $80,000 grant to the Harvard program -- a $10,000 increase over last year. But Harvard had requested much more to finance a proposed addition of 50 to 75 children to the program...
...Neill said yesterday that he had been invited to visit Upward Bound by its director, Theodore R. Sizer, dean of the School of Education. During his visit, O'Neill met with 12 children and several parents involved in the program...
Because no scholarly work has been done in the problem of upward mobility as it affects men now in their thirties or forties, it is impossible to say with confidence how this will effect future patterns of leadership in China. Yet one can speculate that there must be a growing sense of frustration among large numbers of third- and fourth-echelon leaders who have few really important policy-making responsibilities. Moreover, given the advanced age of the Politburo members, the near future may well witness many new top leaders with only the most limited experience in the problems of decision...