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...last year some 70 million Americans, half of all those who are 18 years or older, had been through high school. That is the largest electorate so highly educated the world has ever produced. Their education has been dramatically enlarged by television. Their sensitivity to the facts of national life has been tuned by the drama of Watergate. They do not see the issues as black and white, as many of the candidates continue to shout. Quit talking to them as twelve-year-olds, advised Harris...
...odds with Treasury Secretary William Simon and President Ford. Simon and Ford have consistently minimized the damage a default by New York might have on the ability of other cities and towns to sell bonds. Both also have firmly opposed federal help for the nation's largest city...
...ever begun. Last week, less than three weeks after Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo was sworn in as head of the Sixth Provisional Government, Lisbon was swept with rumors of impending coups by extremists on both ends of the country's wide political spectrum. First the Socialists, largest of the three parties in the Pinheiro de Azevedo coalition, issued communiques warning of an imminent leftist attack on the Premier. Almost immediately the Communists countered with an equally alarming communique suggesting that "when certain forces announce a coup from the left, it can be suspected that there...
...change in 394 must be done carefully, but does not believe its abolition would mean the end of the N.Y.S.E. Even in advance of any change in the rule there are already signs of a trend away from the floor. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest broker, is on the verge of starting a plan under which it would trade odd-lot orders (those for fewer than 100 shares) in its own offices. That would save odd-lot buyers and sellers an eighth of a point price differential that they must now pay to get their...
...Faculty, which has the largest of any of the 45 individual University budgets, is projecting an operating deficit of only $1 million for this year...