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William LeFevre, a vice president of Purcell, Graham, thinks that the Dow may crack 1400 before the bull market is over. "As for the time frame," he says, "we'll cop a plea, using that old bromide of successful Wall Streeters: 'If you're going to give them a date, don't give them a number, but if you're going to give them a number, don't give them a date...
Meanwhile, junior Paul Gompers and Huskie David Westover battled it out in a tough 5000-meter race. Though he took the lead at the crack of the gun, with a mile left in the race, Gompers found himself in second place. He responded with a burst of speed that blew Westover away and gave him a lead he never relinquished. When he finished in 14:11, he also had a new school record...
...authority to build a first-class university. Even Chancellor Wharton cannot shift a secretarial position or substantially expand a department without permission from the state division of the budget. Tuition money is bled away to pay off old construction debts. And there is not enough new money to lure crack faculty or beef up the graduate curriculum. Under the dead hand of such regulations, continues the report, SUNY is "well behind" other major public universities in research and graduate education...
...high passes to reach the miners' camps. Three carriers died in avalanches. A fourth froze to death, his . bag jammed with Christmas mail. Arnold has crashed twice, once when the wind shifted wildly over a jury-rigged runway and put him into the trees. The second time, a crack developed in the exhaust system, carbon monoxide leaked into the cabin, and the pilot passed out. The plane's premature landing, fortunately, was again cushioned by the trees...
Richard P. Feynman, 66, is a Nobel-prizewinning physicist who talks like a New York City cabby, plays the bongo drums and, to judge from his uninhibited autobiography, thinks as much of his ability to crack safes as he does of his genius for breaking cosmic codes. As part of the brain trust that made the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, Feynman amused himself during quiet desert nights by entering colleagues' offices and picking the locks meant to guard nature's most destructive secrets. Since 1951 he has opened thousands of young minds as a professor at the California Institute...