Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After five days, they arrested the arsonist: a 13-year-old Negro school drop out who was seen scurrying from the tenement where the flames started. He signed a two-page confession describing how he started the fire by igniting a stack of papers. When asked why he did it, he murmured: "I don't know...
...total. Many experts think that unemployment may jump briefly from its present low of 3.6% to a range of from 4½% to 5%. Painful though that would be to the workers affected, the situation would help to curb inflationary pay increases. Chicago Economist John Langum expects a drop in business inventories, corporate profits, personal income and consumer spending to add up to "a moderate recession." In any case, the impact of peace will hit industries, areas and manpower unevenly. Many industries likely to lose war business-autos, textiles, rubber, for example-are those that can readily turn to industrial...
Pert, lank-haired Linda LeClair, 20, from Hudson, N.H., enrolled as a freshman at Manhattan's Barnard College in 1965. Soon afterward, she met Peter Behr, a Columbia University freshman from New York City, at a dormitory dinner. Romance blossomed, and when Linda became ill and had to drop out of school a few months later, the couple moved into a West Side apartment together. Last year, still living off-campus with Peter, Linda resumed her studies...
...Lakers' style of play. Van Breda Kolff contributes considerably to that himself. A sometime N.B.A. guard (with the New York Knickerbockers) and coach at Princeton during the Bill Bradley era, he is a study in perpetual motion during Lakers' games-stalking the sideline screaming at officials, drop-kicking paper cups fu11 of water into the crowd. Van Breda Kolff's enthusiasm has cost him 24 technical fouls and $850 in fines this season, but it has also proved infectious. "We're all charged up," says Baylor, and West goes even further: "I think...
...housing, which is uniquely sensitive to a downturn when rates jump-as mortgage lenders agreed they surely will. A more immediate reaction came on the New York Stock Exchange, where the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 11.56 points in the week's final trading session. The drop not only erased earlier gains, but left the bellwether index at 897.65, an 8.04-point loss for the week...