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...last two years, Harvard undergraduates appear to have become somewhat more interested in taking, vocational courses, at least vocational courses of a sort. This results partly from a growing interest in medicine; partly from a job market that is growing permanently tighter; partly from the evident decay of student interest in other things (such as radical politics); and partly from a complementary trend for Harvard types to look for more private means of satisfaction...
...third agent contributing to students' increased vocational interest--the decay of political consciousness--is perhaps the most obvious, but also the most difficult factor to define. Certainly the style of the Harvard student has changed markedly in the last ten years, but his vocational inclinations do not seem to have undergone a parallel shift. Before, during and after the strikes of 1960 and 1970 about the same number of seniors planned to become lawyers and doctors...
...agreed with the statement that "Watergate shows how even the privacy of ordinary people is being threatened these days." Somewhat mysteriously, 70% said that it also indicated that "big business misuses its influence and controls the country." And 67% saw Watergate as "part of a general climate of moral decay in which people feel that they can get away with anything...
...many of the victims would be found. Trusties from a local jail began digging, and within hours they had exhumed eight corpses from a 6-ft.-deep mass grave. All were teen-age boys; some were wrapped in plastic bags, others covered with lime to disguise the stench of decay. The corpses were stacked one above the other, separated only by thin layers of dirt...
...suburbs. Cooperating with the city, they turned Nicollet Avenue into a shopping mall and built a system of skyways linking the buildings along the street. The project, spearheaded by Donald C. Dayton, 58, has stimulated more than $200 million in new downtown construction, reversing the familiar urban pattern of decay and turning the area into a bright and active commercial district. The new 51-story IDS tower, designed by Philip Johnson, is the tallest and most distinguished building between Chicago and San Francisco. Other adornments: Minoru Yamasaki's gracefully pillared Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. Building, and Gunnar Birkerts' Federal...