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...contestants climb onto the blocks, the 4-ft., 11-in., 82-pounder scrutinizes the field checking for false starters, while one finger rests anxiously on his combination wrist and stop watch...
Everyone now knows that the Husky men were flabbergasting in their Beanpot upset of favored Boston College and Boston University squads. But long before that 28th Beanpot--in fact almost before the Zamboni hit the ice after the 27th--Northeastern had begun its short climb to stardom. The women's hockey team was paving...
Unemployment. By year's end the number of jobless is expected to climb by 1.5 million to almost 8 million, or 7.5% of the labor force, the highest level since February 1977. The rise is already under way: the Government reported last week that unemployment, which had been in the 5.9% range for 17 months, jumped in January...
...only did the Dow Jones industrial average of 30 of the nation's leading companies climb by a respectable 51 points, to 876 on Jan. 31 (it closed on Friday, Feb. 1, at an even higher 881), but broader measures of investor interest in stocks also showed gains. The New York Stock Exchange composite index, which tracks the prices of 1,500-plus Big Board companies, climbed by a solid 6%, while Standard & Poor's widely watched index of 500 major U.S. corporations rose almost as much...
...look twenty from behind and sixty face on." She gives Mountain Town a medieval European feel simply by looking down at one of its narrow lanes, "so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps, like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps." The eerie, lonely beauty of perpetual dusk is condensed in an impression: "Northward above the mountain shoulder she saw one bright star shine clear, gone the next instant, lost, like the reflection in a raindrop or the glitter of mica in sand...