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...Engineers, 4-7 so far, are led by 5'7" guard Minot Cleveland who is aver aging 23 points a game. The Crimson, now 5-9, has a height advantage over M. I. T. and a better running game. But Harvard, if it continues to shoot at a low percentage, may have trouble against the Engineers that it shouldn't have...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Tigers, Penn Crush Five; Cagers at M. I. T. Tonight | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...genuine wit, once called the "limousine liberals." Lindsay's riposte was to label Mario's entourage "Cadillac conservatives." In the view of their foes, Lindsay's forces loom as an alliance of patricians and restive blacks ? the New Establishment in urban America ? and Procaccino and his aver age man are out to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NEW YORK: THE REVOLT OF THE AVERAGE MAN | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...York Stock Exchange, the belwether Dow-Jones industrial aver age advanced strongly after President Johnson announced on March 31 that he would not run for re-election and that he was making new overtures to end the Viet Nam war. The average sagged in August but soon rebounded in what brokers called "Nixon rallies." At year's end, the index was approaching its historic peak of 995.15, set in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Economy in 1968: An Expansion That Would Not Quit | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...possibility of antitrust action, even though it has taken over no domestic passenger-car firm for 50 years. Sensitive to the Administration's inflation worries, G.M. Chairman James Roche recently played the part of a diplomat in meeting with White House economists be fore announcing price increases (aver aging only 1.6%) on his 1969 models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: What Price Competition? | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...directors: "If the char acters sat around and talked to each other about vampires, you would turn people off. It's the actual vampirizing that makes the show." No doubt about it. Dark Shadows has put the bite on a rapidly-rising audience that now aver ages 15 million viewers a week. When Barnabas the Vampire (Actor Jonathan Frid) goes on personal appearance tours, he is apt to pull 25,000 people at a time. At a Fort Wayne shopping cen ter, played by both Richard Nixon and Eugene McCarthy during the Indiana primary, Frid outdrew each of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Ship of Ghouls | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

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