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...Dow-Jones Industrial Average...
...into new issues of corporate securities. The most vivid demonstration of the trend came last week when American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the world's largest private enterprise, floated a $3.2 billion financing-a size usually associated only with U.S. Treasury offerings. After the issue went on sale, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped nearly 10 points in two days as investors switched out of other securities to buy the bluest chip...
...closely watched indicator of credit tightness or ease. When it fell last week, rates also dropped in the bond markets, and buyers crowded in. Stock market investors, who have also been hurt by the credit pinch, greeted the prime-rate cut with a surge of buying that pushed the Dow-Jones industrial average up more than 16 points, its largest one-day gain in two years...
...When the presence of Dow Chemical interviewers on the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus led to raucous protests, the school suspended ten students under a regulation that prohibited misconduct. Judge Doyle struck down the rule, holding that the standard of "misconduct" alone was unconstitutionally vague. "The facts of life," he said, "have long undermined the concepts, such as in loco parent is, that have been invoked historically for conferring upon university authorities virtually limitless disciplinary discretion." His decision was upheld on appeal. - At the Oshkosh campus of Wisconsin...
...long, pink building with seventeen-year-old bullet holes still pock-marking its walls. That day the fourth-graders had filled a bulletin board with a photo exhibit of Vietnamese children. A few pictures showed kids staring blankly at the camera, their flesh grotesquely disfigured by Dow's napalm, but most of the shots were of boys and girls dancing in a circle, making pungi sticks to trap U.S. soldiers, or working in the rice-fields. On top of the pictures was a strip of paper with the words, "Children are born to be happy...