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...result of all this is that since the autumn of 1963, Miles has raised and spent $1,250,000 on capital improvements. A student union and cafeteria building have been completed, a science building constructed at a cost of $500,000, and one of the school's old structures rehabilitated...
...Detroit's automakers, the new year begins in late summer and early autumn when, after much spying and speculation, new models are introduced. Thus, last week was New Year as the first of the '67s were presented. They came, as always, wrapped in a package of optimism about buyer acceptance and total sales. This year the optimism was more remarkable because of the sales year that the auto companies have just been through...
...Inevitably, the continuing downturn caused some to recall that awful autumn of 1929. There was, in fact, no comparison. The industrial average in '29 stood half as high as it does now-the year's peak was 381.17 -and the market took terrifying tumbles with only about half the volume of trading. On '29's infamous Tuesday, Oct. 29, the day the market crashed, the average plunged by 30.57 points. In that October alone, the industrials lost about as much (20%) as they have all this year. From 1929's high to its low they...
Barbra couldn't sing a clinker either. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home brought tumult. He Touched Me touched everybody. Autumn Leaves, in French yet, wowed 'em, and People knocked 'em out. For encores she wailed her tearful Happy Days Are Here Again and, patting her bulging tummy, crooned Silent Night. And that was that. With thunderous cheers chasing her, Barbra tripped backstage to her house-trailer dressing room. There, in a symbolic act, her private hairdresser sheared her customary complicated coif into a modified Mia Farrow cut that Barbra could tend herself. Then...
...buyer, gazing at the long coats: "We're not ready for that sort of thing." For the British, the hemline dropped like a bomb. "It would be fatal!" cried one British designer. "I've just made my spring collection-all short. Shops have just ordered their autumn stock-all short." Protested a Bond Street fashion buyer: "The leggy feeling is still strong, and nobody is going to accept a drastic change...