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...Street seers have been predicting an inevitable pause. But early last week, like a long-distance runner gaining a second wind, the market burst ahead with fresh energy. The Dow Jones industrial average posted its biggest daily gain of the year, leaping 9.86 points and closing above the psychological barrier of 900 for the first time in 21 months. For the week, the Dow rose 15 points to close at 913. Stocks on the American Exchange also made impressive gains...
...Laos mission were originally defined. When the South Vietnamese troops first crossed the Laotian border on or about Feb. 8, their announced mission was to disrupt North Vietnamese supply lines in the area. U. S. officials clearly hoped that the South Vietnamese would be able to create a barrier through the area that would halt the flow of communist reinforcements and supplies until the monsoon rains begin in early...
Last Friday night, when I climbed up to find a seat in the second balcony of Boston Garden so that a female CRIMSON reporter could sit in my seat in the press box and break the Garden's sex barrier. I didn't think Harvard had a prayer in the world of beating B.U. Watching hockey from the top of the Garden is a little like watching a game on a small TV with the lower half of the screen blacked out, and I've been more excited about Bruins-Vancouver Canucks games than I was about seeing Harvard lose...
...attitude on Radcliffe's part when it comes to pressing Harvard for female equal opportunity. According to Ann N .Michelini '60, Co-chairman of the Graduate Women's Organization, "The existence of Radcliffe as a separate, but completely dependent institution has been repeatedly used by Harvard as a protective barrier against admitting women equally to the advantages men students enjoy. At present, Radcliffe is still being used by Harvard to discriminate against women, for only by maintaining the fiction that Radcliffe is a separate entity can Harvard justify the present ratio of four men to one woman. .. . As a separate...
...greater reluctance in the state capitals to provide aid for cities. In short, the isolation of the central city." That need not happen, however; planned development of new towns at the city's edge and a greater amount of regional urban-suburban cooperation could help jump the mounting barrier...