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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next year the number of 18-year-olds in the U.S. will jump by about 20% -progeny of G.I.s demobbed in 1946. By 1970 this population bulge may well result in 7,000,000 collegians. After that will come a striking multiplier effect. Roughly 40% of Americans aged 18 to 21 are now pursuing higher education as against 25% in 1951. Since today's collegians will aim to send their children to college, the 1980 enrollment...
...Jump Ahead. Son of a New Jersey advertising salesman, Hayden caught his first glimpse of the sea in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where his mother and stepfather had fled a jump ahead of the creditors. Before long he was slipping down to the Gloucester and Boston docks to beg a berth on the beam trawlers. By the time he got his skipper's papers, he was something of a local hero (LOCAL SAILOR LIKE MOVIE IDOL headlined the Boston Post). A well-meaning friend sent a letter to a Hollywood agent: "There's a young fellow back here named...
...Godard stumbles with his characterization, he stuns with his camera. His scencs are always precisely composed and his camera angles reveal intelligence and inventiveness. Nothing is superfluous; when sound is unecessary, the film runs in absolute silence. When a machine gun fires, the frames jump in the same staccato. The film is divided into tweive titled episodes; the exposure as well as the focus fades emphatically with the concluding line of each episode. Alternating sequences of an early Dreyer film clip and Godard's modern celluloid contrast sharply with each other...
...long slump. From 1955 to 1961 the profits of the 102 Class I railroads sagged from $921 million to $382 million. In the past year or so, however, the railroads have begun to hum along again. This year their revenues will rise 2% to $9.6 billion, and profits will jump 10% to a six-year high of $630 million...
...plant and expanding two others. With a limited supply of cars, Volkswagen is concentrating mostly on sales abroad. Volkswagen figures that its sales in the U.S. will rise from last year's 232,000 units to 250,000 this year, and that its world wide sales will jump almost 10%, to $1.75 billion. In Germany, hopeful buyers still have to wait up to six weeks for delivery of a standard VW and three months for the company's bigger, costlier 1500 sedan (TIME, Sept...