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...graduating seniors were undecided what to do after graduation, against 4-6% in 1964-67. The proportion of students intending to go to graduate schools dropped from 74% in 1966 to 46% in 1970. While the idea once seemed willfully eccentric, a number of Harvard graduates are going into manual trades or becoming clerks or driving cabs-doing anything to grasp that "real life" from which they feel culturally separated. Against the traditional American grain, at least some are choosing downward mobility...
...public knowledge that he had fathered an illegitimate child by another Stephens student. He flew to Washington, D.C., and spent his last dime on a call to his sister Helen. She gave him a place to stay, and her husband gave him a job with his construction firm doing manual labor. Scott managed to stay away from the theater for almost a year...
...first that came to light involved plagiarism. Casey said that when he headed the Institute for Business Planning, the tax publishing branch of Prentice-Hall, Inc., an editorial employee had copied 21 pages from an author's manuscript and used it in a tax manual. A jury awarded $41,450 to the author, but he agreed to an out-of-court settlement for half that amount, possibly because he feared an appeal by Casey...
...Green Beret field manual, Department of Defense publications on the Montagnards, and Saigon officials all told the HAC that the Montagnards of Quang Ngai have a long history of rice growing on terraced fields...
...explosion last March that ripped up a Weatherman bomb factory in Manhattan, killing three members of the group. Weatherman activity declined, and then, early in December, Fugitive Bernardine Dohrn, one of the group's leaders, issued a manifesto that was at once a critique of past mistakes and a manual for future strategy...