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Aside from the large uncut diamond, termed "the center-piece of the collection" and "the largest and most perfect diamond crystal of its size in the world," the gems taken in 1962 proved to be replaceable on the open market. The theft made only a small dent in the Harvard mineralogical collection...
Mutilated Bodies. The episode made no sizable dent in the Viet Cong army. But it was heartening to U.S. military observers, who on many past occasions had watched the government's troops refuse to press their attack. This time the relief column had stood its ground under the Viet Cong pounding and then moved in on the Reds in brutal combat...
...Ready Answer. But the Presi dent's Council of Economic Advisers argues that no matter how high profits are, they are not adequate if they do not induce businessmen to invest in expansion programs. Other economists who agree take their reasoning out of Keynesian scripture. Lord Keynes once wrote: "Short of going over to Communism, there is no possible means of curing unemployment except by restoring to employers a proper margin of profit...
...pickup in 1963's first four months created 700,000 new jobs, but 674,000 new workers-not to mention those already unemployed-started looking for jobs. Even the steel mills are hiring only high school graduates, and Government programs for training the unschooled have hardly made a dent. "You just cannot make a shoe clerk out of an unschooled machine shop employee, no matter how hard you try," says Houston Economist Sven Larsen. To many, the only answer lies in broadened vocational training for those of limited talents and expansion of the nation's higher educational system...
...students. To foot the bill, he has $30,000 from foundations and a Philadelphia drug house. N.S.M. clearly can make only a dent in the great mass of Negro slum kids who consider education strictly square, but it has started something worth doing well...