Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first season as impresario of off-Broadway's Public Theater, Producer Joseph Papp has rocked his subscribers with the original production of Hair (see above), shocked them with a freewheeling fantasia on the theme of Hamlet, and socked them with the allegorical, enigmatical Ergo (TIME, March 8). The theater's latest offering, spiky satire from Czechoslovakia called The Memorandum, winds up its season with a nervous laugh...
...injuries to the week's total. Both the Spectator and the moderate student government called for resignations of Kirk and Provost David Truman and joined S.D.S. President Mark Rudd in urging a campus strike-a suggestion formally supported by 400 faculty members. Rudd, 20, was leader of last March's sit-in at Low Library (for which he was put on disciplinary probation), and recently returned from a three-week visit to Communist Cuba, which he glowingly described as an "extremely humanistic society...
...McDonnell Douglas Corp., making only its fourth quarterly report as a merged company, earned $14.8 million. The Douglas Aircraft division, which had losses that would have cost the pair $3.8 million in the 1967 quarter, finally returned to the black in March...
...Penney Co., the nation's second-largest general merchandiser (after Sears, Roebuck & Co.), rang up $208 million sales in March, thus outracing last March by 8.3% and completing a five-year stretch of consecutive monthly-sales increases. Since 1962, sales have risen from $1.7 billion to 1967's $2.75 billion-a 60% increase that edged out Sears's (59%), far exceeded that of third-ranked Montgomery Ward...
...World War II. From a peak of $7 billion in 1964, that surplus shrank 41% to $4.1 billion last year. So far this year, the record has been even worse. The first-quarter surplus fell to an annual rate of only $731 million, the lowest in 31 years; during March, the U.S. trade balance actually ran $158 million...