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...Treasury aide initially told Carter that the increase would be the largest since 1921. Demonstrating his awesome?and to some advisers infuriating ?grasp of detail, the President quickly corrected him: there had been a one-point leap in 1933, and the 1921 boost the aide had been thinking of was actually a point and a quarter...
Voter lists posted outside the Cambridge fire station showed that Harvard students make up more than half of Ward Six. Precinct Three, the third largest precinct in the city. Quad residents vote in Ward Seven, Precinct Five...
...Hampshire State Legislature is comprised of one representative for every 2000 people, making it the world's third-largest democratic body after Parliament and Congress. This grass-roots government makes it easier for students, like Campbell, to win public office...
...Nestles to adopt appropriate policies for marketing have failed. Because Nestles is a foreign-based company, it is not possible for Americans to force change by using shareholder resolutions or similar efforts, which might produce desirable alterations in the practices of U.S.-based corporations. Nestles is by far the largest of the sellers of manufactured infant formula to Third World countries, and currently has over one-third of the market. Evidence is clear that the Nestles boycott is worrying the company, and is beginning to result in policy changes. It is also obvious that Nestles is spending large sums...
Last week the largest retrospective of Mark Rothko's paintings went on view in Manhattan. Organized by Art Historian Diane Waldman for the Guggenheim Museum, it will travel later to Houston, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. It consists of almost 200 paintings, spanning a career of more than 40 years. They run from his first tentative exercises in the manner of Milton Avery, his mentor, whose soft, vibrating patches of color had an indelible effect on Rothko; thence to the curious, stilted subway scenes of the 1930s, and to the totemic abstracts of vaguely identifiable figures-in-landscape which were...