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During the past year, of course, it took bad judgment, bad timing and bad luck to lose money in the market. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 basic blue chips rose 15% in 1967, but the Dow is much too narrow a gauge. Outmoded and inadequate, it does not come close to measuring the total market or its most dynamic companies, even though it has an exaggerated influence over the market's mood. It closed last week at 864-just about where it was three years ago. The better, broader Standard & Poor index...
While SDS did not finalize its intentions for the day of the Dow visit, they did specifically endorse several tactics for a publicity campaign to be run between now and February...
Pusey's description of radicals in his Annual Report as "Walter Mittys of the left" irked many at the meeting. An overwhelming majority voted to demand again that "Pusey & Co." debate SDS, and Jonathan M. Harris '68 termed the return of Dow "a direct challenge" from Pusey and the Administration...
...contrast, John B. Fox, director of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, said, that Dow "confirmed by letter last year on April 4" that it would visit Harvard on February...
...also claimed that, of the names on the sign-up sheet for Dow interviews, "some of them look suspicious." But SDS officials denied that they made any official attempt to pad the list with anti-war people...