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Outside Help. The climb, to be sure, was not all due to internal causes. Much of it has come since President John son's State of the Union message; along with such bitter pills as higher taxes, the President also promised such palliatives as easier money and spoke against the wartime wage and price controls that Wall Street fears. In addition, last week came predictions from Washington that last year's sharp rise in consumer prices was likely to ease off this year, which also pleases the Street. By March, if the market does indeed roll into...
...point in the first half, Dartmouth had opened up a seven-point lead. With ten minutes left, Coach Floyd Wilson re-inserted slumping captain Gene Dressler into the lineup, and Dressler sparked the Crimson's climb back to respectability. Dressler ended the evening with nine points, Barth Royer had 18 and Bob Kanuth 15 for the losers...
This time he wasn't climbing simply because it was there. Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, 47, thought the kids might like a breath of thin air over the holidays. In Nepal to work on a hospital for his old climbing companions, the Sherpas, Sir Edmund packed his ice ax and took his wife, Louise, and their three children, aged seven to eleven, on a trek to the 18,000-ft. base camp from which, in 1953, he became the first man to climb Mount Everest...
Federal aid and foundation grants are not enough to keep a college on the move. As campus expenses continue to climb, the nation's institutes of higher learning are stepping up their appeals for private gifts from alumni, corporations and anyone, in fact, who has a dollar to give. What's more, they are finding the money with surprising ease. Private gifts to the nation's 50 best-known colleges and universities have jumped at least 50% over...
...result of the student deferment and mental-physical standards, the selective service now forces a particular group of young people--the lower-middle class--to bear a disproportionate share of the burden. The deferment weeds out those who do not have the resources--mental, material, and motivational--to climb the dizzying ladder to "higher" education. The physical and intelligence criteria select out much of the lower class. As the Task Force on Manpower Conservation showed in its report One-Third of a Nation, at least a fifth of those rejected come from families that are on public assistance, and almost...