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...That left some 800 graduate students working on doctorates in astronomy with little hope of future employment; there are fewer than 50 astronomy job-openings per year in the U.S. "The handwriting was on the wall, and there was considerable gloom and doom among young astronomers," recalls Craig Chester, 32. "We decided that it's better to hang together than hang separately...
Lucky Stars. In 1971 Chester and his five Case Western Reserve colleagues began feasibility studies on their plan-including a hard look at the group's prospects for hanging together for five whole years. They decided that their do-it-yourself project was indeed practical. After carefully selecting a site that was suitably high, dry and far from city lights in the Los Padres National Forest near Monterey, they dubbed their brainchild MIRA-the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy...
Other participants, however, felt that objective standards could not be applied to the academic community. "Objective tests just aren't known. The only factor medical students have in common with each other is that they're taller than rejected applicants," Chester M. Pierce, professor of Education and Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, said Friday...
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Plunging Sales. Management negotiators, headed by Chester Kessler, president of the Clothing Manufacturers Association, contend that increases of the size the union is asking would send suit prices soaring and open the way to even more foreign competition from Europe, Canada and Japan. Moreover, a years-long style trend toward slacks, sports shirts and other casual wear has so hurt suitmakers that they say they cannot afford a substantial wage increase. Plummeting sales have reduced the number of men's suits produced from a high of 21.8 million units in 1965 to 16.7 million last year. At week...