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...week and prices of industrial materials-are still rising. The other six point down. Among them are the pace of nonfarm hiring, the ratio of prices to manufacturing labor costs, and stock prices as measured by the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks. The stock indicator does, however, show a rise for April. Overly excited by European political events and peace prospects in Viet Nam, investors sent the 500 up by 2.28 points last week to close at 104; the narrower Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials climbed 33 points to 957 for its best week-long rally...
Minneapolis-based Cargill, Inc., uses a converted Greyhound bus as a mobile personnel office, sends it on week-long excursions to recruit female help from small towns in Minnesota and neighboring states. The bus is outfitted much like a railroad parlor car, with couches, tables and a galley. It enables Cargill to avoid setting up recruiting offices in motels, an arrangement that tends to make parents of prospective employees wary...
...Alvin Alley American Dance Theatre, an all-black company, will make its only New England appearance this Spring as part of the week-long Quincy House Arts Festival...
...more than 36,000 of the Communists' finest assault troops smashed into South Viet Nam's cities and towns. Then suddenly, in a whoosh of rockets and thud of mortars, the nightmare seemed about to begin again. Barely 19 hours after they had ended a self-imposed, week-long Tet truce, Communist gunners launched coordinated rocket and mortar attacks on more than 100 cities, towns and military installations throughout South Viet Nam, including the capital of Saigon...
...prelude to President Nixon's forthcoming trip, a team of top U.S. moneymen traveled to Europe last week for the new Administration's first formal contacts with European economic officials. At the week-long meetings in Paris of the 22-nation Organization for European Cooperation and Development, the delegation earned high marks and persuaded even the skeptics that the U.S. economy is in good hands. The Europeans wanted some indication of U.S. determination to handle its No. 1 economic problem: inflation. The Americans did not disappoint them. "If we have one objective, it is to try to cool...