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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bad performance will do little to help the Crimson from the irritating rut into which it has fallen recently, and both Brown and Clarkson are quite capable of beating Harvard unless the Crimson scores early. The Crimson's ECAC stock is becoming somewhat shaky. It needs two big triumphs this weekend...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Varsity Skaters to Take on Army In Round One of Garden Tourney | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...winter's rest, Virgil Steyer Jr. is usually working hardest. Steyer grows Christmas trees on large tracts near secluded Mount Storm, W. Va. (pop: 160); every December he serves droves of customers attracted from miles around by the high quality of his crop. But this year business is bad. Not that the Yuletide spirit has suddenly evaporated; rather Steyer's livelihood has been threatened by air pollution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Custer's Last Stand | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...juvenile delinquency. The effect, in each case, has been exactly the opposite. Public housing is a total failure. The major beneficiaries are the people who sell their property for housing projects. Some of the poor benefit, but at the expense of other poor people, who are forced to vacate bad housing and occupy worse." SOCIAL SECURITY. "It is a means of taxing the poor for the benefit of the rich. If you are poor, you start to work earlier in life, yet your life expectancy is shorter, and if you work after 65, you get less benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE RISING RISK OF RECESSION | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Friedman and some other forecasters believe that the U.S. next year will go through an "inflationary recession." There is almost no way that the U.S. can avoid simultaneous increases in both prices and unemployment; the question is just how bad those rises will be. "Never has a U.S. inflation of the present intensity?5% to 6% a year?been controlled without a recession," says Economist Beryl

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE RISING RISK OF RECESSION | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...that some Pittsburgh newspapermen have concocted a new game based on inflationary psychology. According to them, it now takes three to tango, four's a crowd, and that favorite song of a few years back has become Four Coins in a Fountain. Similarly, the number 14 is bad luck, and so is four on a match. A stitch in time saves ten, cats have ten lives, two birds in the hand are worth three in the bush, a bluffer is a fiveflusher, and that soft drink should really be called Eight-Up. Life, these days, begins at 41, girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Consumer: Behind the Nine Ball | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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