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...liberal arts colleges in the Midwest, South and Southwest last fall accepted far more freshmen than actually enrolled, and began the semester with classes as much as 30% under strength. Dropouts will create more space. In Iowa, for example, 14 private and public four-year colleges report 1,205 midyear vacancies. At 42 similar campuses in Ohio. Michigan, Illinois and Indiana, the hole is 3,897 places. In Georgia alone, nine senior colleges have 1,413 openings. In New York, eleven junior colleges have...
...stock market was "highly vulnerable to a sharp reaction before mid-1962" now predicted a bullish 1963 if a sizable tax cut comes in time. "For maximum effectiveness for growth," said Lange, "the reduction must come while the economy is still rising." If the tax cut is enacted by midyear, he predicted a "strong?perhaps booming?acceleration" that would last well into...
...downturn some time in the first half of next year. Those who are more optimistic about it predicate their optimism on an early and sizable cut in federal taxes. Says Tidewater Oil's President George F. Getty II: "If there is not a broadly based tax reduction by midyear, there is serious question in my mind whether business activity will rise in the second half...
...first time since 1958. Five hundred twenty one students enrolled in the course--so many that the department didn't have enough section men and had to dispense with sections for about 100 seniors taking the course. The seniors will be permitted to drop the course at midyear if they wish...
...perhaps rule once entitled students taking final or midyear examinations to have a mug of ale at the end of hour. This sympathetic seems rather anomalous for the old Puritans who supposedly made it. Perhaps even they, despite their conviction that "all work and no play sends Jack to Heaven," had some unconscious qualms about the examination system...