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...unexpectedly high "drop-off rate" among undergraduates has enabled the College to offer permanent residence in University housing to 20 students, admitted to Harvard as commuters, who last year secured only temporary, one-year spaces in Harvard housing, Dean Whitlock said yesterday...
Whitlock said last year's projection for the 1975-76 drop-off rate, approximately 5 per cent, was too low for the University to guarantee rooms last spring to the temporarily-housed students...
...July from June, but a continued revival of the industry depends on an ample supply of mortgage money. The cash in the loan drawers of the nation's savings and loan associations mounted by a record $2.87 billion in July, but some institutions may have suffered an ominous drop-off in deposits late last month. While that could be traced partly to a stepped-up pace of consumer spending, many experts fear that it also means that individuals are already starting to make the switch out of savings and into higher-paying securities...
...third night after the kidnaping to try to locate the ransom "drop" point. Following instructions from his city desk via a short-wave receiver, Sorensen cruised through the drop area until he saw a car that he had been following stop by a phone booth on a lonely road. He presumed that it was the agent impersonating Mrs. Kronholm's husband, and he pulled his auto into a side road, hoping to witness what few reporters ever have: the drop-off and possible pickup of a kidnap ransom. By then, Sorensen's editors had radioed him to abandon...
...come with a crash if it did not come gradually, they have grown increasingly concerned about the fact that the level of new construction stayed so high so long. Recently the Commerce Department considerably eased their worries. It published housing figures for April showing a marked but still orderly drop-off that should-if all else goes well-slow the building industry to a sustainable pace...