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...powerful, too far removed. And always there had been a more immediate task at hand. And yet, after an easy rout of Brown, here they were. A Cinderella team facing the might Eli. Somehow it was impossible, and in the euphoric week before The Game people seemed to float from place to place. Harvard sophomores got rich with tickets going for $200 each. The pundits were almost too numb to write about the biggest college game in decades. The old grads were in the finest hour...
...could provide important benefits for the mail. The department would be freed from the shackles of political patronage, parsimonious appropriations and a jungle of congressional rules and regulations that often thwart efficiency. The reorganization would also provide a financial flexibility now sadly lacking by allowing the postal service to float bonds to pay for the estimated $5 billion-worth of plant and equipment improvements needed to achieve modernization...
...space first. Stafford explained to ground controllers that the crew was about to conduct "scientific experiment Sugar Hotel Alpha Victor Echo"-or SHAVE. NASA had spent $5,000 trying unsuccessfully to perfect a small electric razor with a vacuum attachment that would suck up bristles -which otherwise might float freely and clog up instruments in the weightless environment of the spacecraft. The Apollo 10 astronauts had a simpler solution. They broke out a razor and a tube of brushless shaving cream and attacked their week-old beards in the traditional manner. The bristles were successfully contained in gobs of shaving...
...every American over 18? Answer: any one of four Gulf Oil tankers, each of which can haul 326,000 tons of oil. They share the title of world's biggest tanker-but not for long. A tanker with a capacity of 372,000 deadweight tons (d.w.t.) will float out of a Japanese yard in 1971. Thereafter? Shipbuilders can make a tanker as capacious as anybody wants, but the idea hardly enchants them. They have problems enough building anything above 200,000 tons...
Banks last week charged government bond dealers as much as 10% a year for loans to finance their holdings of securities. Interest rates on tax-exempt local bonds reached new peaks. Cobb County, Ga., for example, paid 6.49% interest to float an issue. A block of Government-guaranteed local public-housing bonds was offered to investors at a record annual yield of 5.55%. For a person in the 50% federal income-tax bracket, that is the equivalent of an 11% return before taxes on ordinary stocks or bonds...