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...Angeles Times, have announced strong opposition to the idea. Though the Washington Post plans to cooperate to a limited degree, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee said last week: "We think it's not the answer to a serious problem." More typical was the comment of Warren Phillips, president of Dow Jones & Co., which publishes the Wall Street Journal: "We think that our record over many years demonstrates that we do not require help from a self-appointed, quasi-public committee." Should other publishers and network officials follow the Times's lead, as seems likely, the press council may come...
...escalated and the Executive Branch increased the level of warfire without consent of Congress, or the people. In 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara was surrounded and detained by a group of students; punishments were handed out by the Administrative Board. Later, a recruiter for the Dow Chemical Company was held in a room in Pierce Hall against his will; here again, punishments were assessed on the students involved, and also on a large group of students who had signed a petition asking to be given equal blame with the actual perpetrators. The College was entering a dark period...
Almost every American could count some gains for the year. Per capita personal income from such sources as wages, dividends, interest and rent rose from $3,620 to $3,821 at last count. Investors profited from the stock market's climb to new peaks; the Dow Jones industrial average, which started the year at 889, finally cracked the 1000 barrier and closed at 1020 (see box, page 52). The prices that farmers collected for their goods increased by about 15%, bringing delight in the farmhouse while raising howls in the supermarkets and complicating the Government's continuing crusade...
...first definitive year-end report card on the economy-the stock market average on the final day of trading -was cause for solid optimism on the part of investors. Last week the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 1020 -up 130 points for the year, a remarkable gain...
...revolution on wheels. A very unblinking assessment in the earlier stages-there is a grim account of a slave voyage told through its expense files-the book offers only a fairly cleaned-up version of more recent entrepreneurial villainy. Recommended especially to readers interested in keeping up with the Dow Joneses...