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...rate of enrollment that threatens the survival of dozens of colleges-most of them private-and the financial stability of many more. Some 150 institutions, from Boston University (enrollment: 15,000) to North Carolina's Davidson College (1,100) paid $150 to set up booths for the daylong fair. Representatives of the American College Testing Program and the Veterans Administration were also on hand to advise students on financial aid, special benefits and testing. "The bits-and-pieces approach to college shopping just wasn't working," says N.A.C.A.C. Executive Director Ted Cooper. "Now we have put together...
...people interested in spending some time in the country, camping and so on," Finkel explains. "So we had 1,200 acres of land reserved. Then we figured that those people coming up after work on Friday were coming for the music." For the latter, the producers lined up a daylong, total-immersion bill of three top groups: The Band, the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band. Then they arranged for a sophisticated system of twelve sound towers to relay the music at one-tenth-of-a-second delays back through the audience...
Unable to sustain its present scorching pace, the U.S. economy will begin to falter in the second half of this year and then slow drastically in 1974. That in essence is the opinion of TIME'S Board of Economists, evolved at a daylong meeting last week that turned into a kind of advance obituary of the present boom...
Since the 19th century, those decisions have been made by the nine judges at daylong conferences that take place every week during the court term. No outsider has ever been allowed to attend those unique secret sessions, but from interviews with several of the Justices (who agreed to speak on a background basis only), TIME Correspondent David Beckwith was able to put together a detailed picture of what they are like. His report...
...line, however, between charming farce of an innocent 1880's and the hideously sappy antics of a Booth Tarkington imagined era can be very thin. When the older clerk in miser Vandergelder's store convinces the junior employee that they should each kiss a girl on their secret daylong journey from Yonkers into New York, the boy protests. "I'm thirty-three," says Cornelius. "I've got to begin sometime." "I'm only seventeen," Barnaby retorts: "It isn't so urgent for me." It's an aptly humorous exchange. But when Barnaby does receive a kiss, the stage directions call...