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...Peter Dow, administrative head of the education center group, said yesterday that accusations by Rep. John B. Conlan (R-Ariz.) that the course is "aimed at causing children to reject the values of American society" have distorted the objectives of the program...
...soon as April. One major reason is a rise in consumer confidence, owing in part to the rapid fall-off in the rate of inflation, from 12% late last year to slightly more than 6% now. Rising confidence, a key to recovery psychology, has buoyed the stock market. The Dow Jones industrials have jumped 22% in two months on heavy trading volume. Albert Sindlinger's Consumer Confidence Index turned up in mid-January from a record low, and nearly doubled in February, when 40% of those polled said that they felt economic conditions would improve. The figure is still...
...kind of buying binge that Wall Street had not seen in more than three years. On the first day of trading last week, investors bought a record 32.1 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange and pushed the battered Dow Jones industrial average up a full 26 points-the ninth highest daily rise in history. In four more days of equally furious trading, the Dow rose 37.08 points in all, punching through 700 for the first time in five months to a week's close at 703.69. That was an impressive 22% above the dismal twelve-year...
While Harvard was making attempts to grab property in the densely populated Square area, the Dow family was slowly amassing land on Brattle Street, Richard A. Dow '33 fell heir to most of Brattle Street and with it the potential to exercise power over a substantial portion of the Square. But Dow maintains now, "I'm not really involved, nor have I been involved in Cambridge relations today." And he is right, as few community leaders mention Dow as a man with influence around the Square...
...President Nixon met with Stock Exchange members alarmed by Dow Jones's sharp decline. At the meeting, what did Nixon cite as the latest reason for confidence in America and optimism about it economy...