Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without swinging too far either way--toward a totally new custodial relationship or toward a complete break in relations--there are intermediate positions that can be taken now to help solve the crisis. The most important would be to respect the authority of the new Student-Faculty Advisory Committee and enact any of its recommendations to bar recruiters...
...month remaining before the March 12 presidential primary. They pledge signers to support President Johnson and to write-in his name for the election. Tagged with serial numbers and the label of the New Hampshire Democratic Committee, they will provide a ready record of party members who break the fold...
These hoards of investment capital have been a major factor in sending prices up because they have created a demand for stock that is growing much faster than the supply of shares. Largely because capital-seeking companies now get a better tax break by issuing bonds instead of stock, the amount of newly issued shares dropped from $5.2 billion in 1957 to $1.5 billion in 1967 (when $16 billion in bonds were floated...
...ratios to companies with profits that are rising only as fast as the U.S. economy's gross national product. Thus, the Dow-Jones industrials now have P-E ratios averaging less than 17 to 1, down from 21 to 1 just before the 1962 market break. Analysts give much more generous P-Es-50 to 1, or more-to companies with profits that rise faster than the U.S. economy and, most significantly, look as if they will continue...
...most people outside penitentiary walls, the term prison reform is a meaningless abstraction. Only when the particular problems of a particular prison break into the open is there public pressure for correction. Such was the case in Arkansas last week. For years, Arkansas legislators have been referring to their two large convict farms as a "model system." The farms turned in a handsome profit that averaged about $1,400,000 over the years from the sale of farm products, and few prisoners ever seemed to escape. But the realities of prison life in Arkansas were far removed from the comfortable...