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...Though hard-hit by graduation losses, plagued by student apathy, and riding on the trough of a 33-game losing streak, Crimson coach Rhesus J. Portfolio '00 is "cautiously optimistic" about his team's chances for success this season...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Crimson Sestet Faces New Season; Coach Porfolio Cautiously Hopeful | 4/1/1965 | See Source »

...Italian industry; Milan's stockmarket last week dropped to a four-year low, and Fiat, stung by anti-inflation government taxes on car pur chases and gasoline, looks for a sizable production drop this year. But Olivetti, whose global sales reached $360 million last year, has been especially hard-hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Destiny of Dynasties | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...from the West, not the East, to keep his struggling country afloat. Only last week, Finance Minister Ahmed Francis returned from Paris with pledges of $280 million in French aid for 1963. At the same time, the U.S. tentatively agreed to launch a food relief program for hard-hit Algerian peasants; Ben Bella hopes this can be broadened into a sweeping program of economic aid before long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The High Cost of Independence | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Transportation came to a virtual standstill in some hard-hit countries. Record snowfalls canceled nearly 2,000 trains in Japan, and the Orient Express was snowbound in Greece for 48 hours. Turkish border posts could only be supplied by army tanks, and nearly 300 snowbound communities in the Italian Apennines were cut off from their supplies. Three feet of snow covered Bulgaria, and in Greece army units roamed the countryside with hay for starving livestock. Ice clogged both the Mississippi and the canals of Venice; a blizzard snapped a power cable in the Bosporus, halting all shipping between the Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: Winter & Mrs. Wood | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...rules for compensating workmen put out of work by machines; and it should have begun collecting information from scattered employers intending to introduce payroll-reducing machinery so that regional and national "automation maps" could be drawn, and plans made in advance for areas or industries that will be especially hard-hit. It is little comfort to speak of what should have been done a decade ago; but it is irrational to expect men to bear the effects of this vast omission uncomplainingly. The cost of this failure in human terms cannot be reckoned; where rational readjustments were possible to meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Newspaper Strike | 1/23/1963 | See Source »

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