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Nonetheless, at a midyear meeting of the 53-year-old National Association of Women Lawyers a fortnight ago in Chicago, delegates agreed that the talented, determined woman has greater opportunity in the law than ever before. More women are becoming interested in the law as a profession. Law schools have markedly relaxed their traditional prejudice against women students. And, largely because many women have proved outstanding attorneys and judges, it is slowly becoming easier for Portia to compete with males for jobs...
...midyear exams and took off for New York, where he went on a spending spree that included wining and dining Dancer Marilyn Miller and her chorus line, whom he had got to know by standing outside the stage door in Boston with his family's white wolfhound as conversational bait. When considerably more than his year's allowance had gone up in the heady smoke of this lonely freshman debauch, Bucky cabled a rich cousin and was promptly packed off in disgrace to a cotton mill in Quebec. Harvard gave him a second chance, but Bucky...
...behind projections, and the stock market had not yet fully recovered from the resounding crash it took on Blue Monday, May 28, 1962. Many economists thought that the best that 1963 had in store was a business sag-hopefully too mild to call a recession-that would begin before midyear. Government forecasters were willing to project only a timid 4% growth in the G.N.P., which would bring it up to $578 billion...
...dropping two extra-cost sports models from the Chevy II line; but the customers kept demanding the extras, and they had to be slipped back quickly into the lineup. Quality and luxury were in demand in homebuilding too. The house market started out slowly, but picked up enough after midyear to equal 1962's record. Builders found that buyers wanted everything that was touted as the best and newest...
...first half. The 713 manufacturing concerns that New York's First National City Bank keeps tabs on showed a fat first-half profit gain of 11 % over last year. With such reports still coming in, little doubt remained that the total earnings of U.S. industry at midyear were running well over the record annual rate of $25.5 billion set in the last three months...