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...college graduates begin their search for employment. The job situation is bad and seems to be getting worse. Last week the College Placement Council reported that there are 18% fewer jobs available for college graduates this year than there were a year ago. Job openings for engineering graduates with bachelor's degrees are down 20%; openings in the auto, building and mechanical equipment industries have plummeted 60%. Says Victor Lindquist, director of the placement office at Northwestern University: "This job market is the most difficult one that we've had in almost 20 years...
...another case, three bachelor civil servants got into the prized sanctuary of the U.S. embassy compound through another man's ruse. A U.S. embassy guard, they say, began offering places inside for $5,000. A woman next to them produced her diamond bracelet and rings. The offer was accepted, and when the gates were opened, the three also sprinted in. Meanwhile, a Vietnamese police officer, who was equally unauthorized, showed up at the embassy and had his own driver help lift his wife, nine children and then himself over the wall...
...basketball on a dusty playground not far from the one where former N.B.A. Superstar Oscar Robertson honed his game. He went to the Pacers after only two years at Indiana University, and has learned to enjoy the amenities that come with his $200,000 annual salary: a three-bedroom bachelor apartment, a stable of four show horses, a red Jaguar and a 19-ft. Chris-Craft...
...could not identify his captors. After two days of seclusion, the gaunt businessman emerged to correct reports that his ransom had been a record $16 million. "The astronomical sums reported in the press only provide free advertising and promotion for this new kind of economic enterprise," he said. Bachelor Bulgari, an occasional escort of Gina Lollobrigida and Candice Bergen, then added: "Even if I am wealthy, that doesn't mean to say I am as rich as many have written." Not any more, at least...
Died. Clyde Tolson, 74, J. Edgar Hoover's almost inseparable No. 2 man at the FBI for 42 years; of heart disease; in Washington, D.C. A taciturn lifelong bachelor, Tolson joined the fledgling bureau in 1928 and soon became what Hoover called "my strong right arm." Though his title was associate director (he was responsible for administration and investigation activities), Tolson handled a pistol convincingly in many of the spectacular arrests that built the FBI's G-man image in the 1930s. But mainly he was the director's loyal alter ego: he shared J. Edgar...