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...match this morning in Hanover, N.H., is an important one for the Crimson booters, who were not paid much notice nationally until last week's upset. If they are not victorious this morning, then the pundits will regard last week's victory as a fluke, and put the Harvard squad back into the "also ran" column...
...exchange prices for industrial raw materials are still about double those of November 1971. And the commodities markets are so notoriously volatile that no one can guarantee against a reversal of the reversal that would send prices up again. But most economists think that the recent drop is no fluke. Thus, the downturn should allay widespread fears that the roaring commodity-price spiral of the past two years was a symptom of a global inflationary fever that might never break...
...wages of U.S. private nonfarm workers rose a mere 6.3%, trailing far behind a 10% rise in consumer prices. But in May, the first month after the death of wage-price controls, workers' wages rose at a stunning annual rate of 19.1%. Though that probably was a statistical fluke, Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, calculates that wages and benefits for the current quarter will go up at an annual rate of 9.2%, and that the rate will rise, to 9.8% in the fourth quarter. Experts at the Government's Cost of Living...
...equipment, Hamlisch is working ten hours a day on the music for the film version of Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue. He has spent two weeks struggling with the title theme alone, because, he says, "I want to prove that I'm not a fluke." And he is pursuing his next goal-to write a hit Broadway musical. "I want to see my name in lights above one of the great Broadway theaters," he says, "before...
Yale's baby crew was seeded first at the Eastern Sprints last weekend and failed to qualify for the finals by some fluke. Harvard made the finals only to lose to Cornell by 8 seconds...