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...Ideally, there should be a separate place for us to be taped," team captain Barbie Matson said. "They're supposed to put up a partition. The trainers are very nice and the football players are less than enthusiastic about our presence. We certainly wouldn't want to bust up the mystique of Dillon Field House...
Neizvestny's monument, which will be formally unveiled this week on the third anniversary of Khrushchev's death, is symbolically strong, a massive (9 ft. high, 5 ft. wide) abstract of white marble and black granite with a bronze bust of Khrushchev in the center. The white and black blocks, says Neizvestny, represent the bright and dark periods of Khrushchev's career, as well as the bright and dark periods of Soviet life...
Colleges also expect to be hit hard as the baby-bust generation of the late '60s and early '70s begins to turn 18 in the 1980s. For economic and other reasons, enrollments have already started to shrink, but the situation will get worse in the years to come. John Silber, president of Boston University, predicts that some 200 smaller colleges, accommodating an average of 5,000 students each, will have to close, and many larger institutions will become academic ghost towns. Anticipating the coming pinch, the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts has cut three buildings...
...unable to pay its bills unless it gets a Government subsidy of $10 million a month. Nationwide, more than 5,000 businesses failed in the first half of 1974, leaving unpaid bills of more than $1.5 billion, almost 50% more than the liabilities of businesses that went bust in the comparable period of 1973. Builders and textile and apparel manufacturers are going broke the fastest...
...more unprecedented dimensions. The greater fear among some liberal economists is that he will give exclusive priority to fighting inflation by radically slashing federal spending and encouraging the independent Federal Reserve to keep a heavy hand on the nation's money supply, and thereby bring on a real bust. In July, the Council of Economic Advisers expected unemployment to rise to 6% before it began to come down. Now predictions of 6½% by mid-1975 are common. Walter Heller, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, foresees a jobless rate of nearly 7% as a consequence...