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...hunt is on for Harvard Business School graduates--and 10 to 15 per cent more organizations will be hunting this year as compared to last, Roderic C. Hodgins '54, director of the Office of Career Development at the school, said yesterday...
...broke because we're going broke, nationwide. We won't accept anything less than 100 per cent parity or we'll have to be back next year," an Alabaman said last month. One way to gain parity, farmers feel, is to keep a contingent of demonstrators in Washington until the government grants the price increase. If this does not work, many plan a more drastic move: They will plow under their fields. This, they believe, will be their most effective action: it is the last card up their sleeve...
...their farms. In fact, many are lsoing their farms or are running into debt annually, as the rising cost of essentials such as machinery, feed and grain pushes their production cost above the prices they receive. To reverse this trend and ensure survival they want 100 per cent parity--that is, they want food prices to balance out production costs...
...Department of Agriculture feels that 100 per cent parity--a fully restored balance between costs and prices--is impossible. First, it would be too expensive for the taxpayer to support prices that high. Second, it would result in extreme production control. Third, it would mean vast temporary government ownership of stocks. Instead, the Department of Agriculture's solution to the trouble more and more farmers are finding themselves in is to increase exports of farm products and develop high-paying new markets abroad...
...Crimson never managed to contain the fast-breaking phalanx of Lion cagers spearheaded by ballhandler Alton Byrd. Harvard's Achilles heel, though, proved to be an inability to hit from the free-throw line as both teams shot nearly 50 per cent from the field. Harvard hit only 6-16 from the charity stripe and failed to convert on four one-on-one opportunities in the first half, while Columbia sank 17-24 in the pivotal Ivy contest...