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...official label for the College action against students with grades. Anything lower than a of one C- and two D's places the student in danger of having his connection severed. This happens to approximately 130 students (including upperclassmen) each year. are almost never asked to at midyear...
...half the people in college could be dropped to the advantage of everybody." Lewis dismissed grading as "absurd"; whether he heard or not Dean Hanford agreed enough to propose that separate April and November hour grades should be abolished. The head of the Faculty approved this and dropped midyear probations and attendance records for upper classmen at the same time...
...market peak out and start the plunge that signals a coming recession? Many analysts expect a big dip within a year. Most pessimistic is Alan Greenspan of Townsend-Greenspan, who says: "The peak of the bull market will be in the early spring, or at the latest by midyear." Most optimistic is Edson Gould, partner in Arthur Wiesenberger & Co., who believes the Dow-Jones index may reach 953 before a major downturn. "I expect this market to go on for most of 1962," says he. "If the bull market is over much sooner, it will be one of the shortest...
...what cost the U.S. could catch up with the U.S.S.R. in man-in-space prowess. "I don't care where you get the answers," said Kennedy. "If the janitor over there can tell us, ask him." Next Kennedy appeared before the Congress to deliver an unusual midyear State of the Union message. He asked for a $9 billion program to put a man on the moon by 1971, and he placed that request, in a manner smacking more of Hollywood and Vine than of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, close to the top of the U.S. cold war priority list...
...midyear conference of his executive council last week, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany was asked about the growing split between his combine's craft and industrial unions. Growled Meany: "I haven't found anyone to heal the breach because I haven't found anyone who knew it existed...