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...September price spurt might be a misleading one-month wiggle-as the Administration claims it is. There are disquieting portents, however, that the index in October will be no better, and perhaps worse. The full impact of increases on new cars will be reflected in the October index, and fuel oil prices are also expected to boost the figures...
...unrestricted income of this Faculty in the past year was about $25 million out of the $42.5 million in the main budget. It is the balance from year to year in the unrestricted account which is the major focus of attention of budget making and is the best single index of the financial condition of this Faculty...
...verdict is nationwide. New York's Daily News, whose pollsters have miscalled only three out of 30 major U.S. elections, canvassed more than 22,000 readers this month, reported 83% wearing skirts above the knee (a percentage in accord with the daily "Hem Line Index," compiled by Manhattan's Women's Haberdashers shops and posted in the window of the main store). Sales figures for the midi are harder to come by, though a representative of a chain of Boston dress shops admits, "Business is not as bouncy as we would like...
PRICE RISES will slow, though not to the 2.4% annual rate shown by the August consumer price index, which was an aberration caused largely by a drop in food prices. In addition, Robert Nathan points out, utilities are encountering steep rises in interest costs as they replace old bond issues with new borrowings at today's high charges. They are petitioning regulators for rate increases...
...preternatural disaffection. The film critics in that town, who often address their reviews to moot points raised by colleagues, frequently succumb to sinful postures, not the worst of which is seeing one-self as cosmic arbiter of good taste. If the audiences which attended the critics' showings are any index of the stance which such enlightened viewers take towards movies, then most modern films are being scrutinized through rose-tinted glasses, darkly. In any event, some of the films are especially good, some are especially interesting, and most will be trucking on up to Boston this fall and winter...