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...year, you will recall for example, there was a considerable furor over who should or should not be permitted on campus to interview graduating students for possible jobs. The SDS, playing on a dissatisfaction widely held in our community, made an inflammatory issue out of the presence of a Dow recruiter on the campus, implying that his presence proved the University's insidious complicity in the hated war effort...
...many shattered windows in nearby buildings are now boarded up that one high administration official ruefully calls the institution "Old Plywood U." Nevertheless, the administrators ironically find comfort in the bombing. They believe that it is the peak of long years of frustration that began with the Dow Chemical demonstrations in 1967. The revulsion it will cause among students and faculty, they think, may help reforge understanding between them...
Converting the Skeptics. The cheery economic news had an immediate effect on Wall Street. Since Aug. 13, the Dow-Jones industrial average has climbed 59 points before leveling off as a result of profit taking; the average closed last week at 766, v. a May low of 631. Some mutual funds and other institutional buyers were purchasing aggressively lest they miss the start of a new bull market...
...market will certainly rise again. It always has. In the later stages of past bear markets, fortunes have been made by investors who had patience, courage?and some cash. Last week, however, portents of any substantial rise in stocks were as hard to find as cheerful brokers. The Dow-Jones industrial average fell 15 points to 711, and new lows for the year were set by many faded glamour stocks, including American Hospital Supply, Avon Products, Walt Disney Productions, Iowa Beef, National Cash Register, Telex, Texas Instruments and Xerox. At week's end the Government reported signs that the economy...
...value of reinvested dividends, while the averages do not. By these varying measures. The Dreyfus Fund declined last year but still did better than all the stock market averages except the Standard & Poor's 500. So far this year The Dreyfus Fund has fallen 20%, or more than the Dow-Jones industrial average (down 9.69%), the Standard & Poor's 500 (down 16.27%) and the N.Y.S.E. Composite (down 18.77%). Still, the fund has fared better than the American Exchange average (off 22%) and than mutual funds as a group (off 23%). Stein contends, quite naturally, that mutual funds should be judged...