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...wrenching. In Melbourne, Iowa (pop. 500), a 100-year-old town halfway between Chicago and Omaha, the brick fronts on Main Street were dog-eared before the current recession. But the pervasive gloom is something new. "Our vital signs are not very good in this town," says Gary Northrup, vice president of Melbourne Savings Bank. "Melbourne's best days may be behind it. Farmers have no money to spend. When they hurt, the town dies a little...
...Nancy J. Northrup '81, a CUE member, said at the meeting students need the last half of reading period to absorb and synthesize course material, adding that natural science students are often overly burdened with hourlies and new topics right before exams begin...
Only two weeks after she was awarded $160 a month in alimony in 1974, Mrs. Anna Northrup of Rochester, N.Y., began living openly with another man. In her new quarters, she shared a bedroom, cooked meals, did the wash and shared household expenses. Her former husband soon stopped the alimony, contending he was legally justified because she was "habitually living with another man and holding herself out as his wife," grounds for cutoff under state law. In a 5-to-2 decision last week, New York's highest court disagreed. The law provides a two-part test, the Court...
...inflation-battered American economy has seen a better example of how prices are supposed to behave in a free market. A typical example: in 1971 a Sharp Electronics pocket calculator sold for $395; today a more sophisticated model retails for $10.95. With their low cost and versatility, says Mai Northrup, vice president of Rockwell International, the chips are already "turning many present products into buggy whips...
...seminar speakers include Marshall McLuhan, Hugh MacLennan, a Canadian novelist and essayist, and Northrup Frye, who was Norton Visiting Professor of Poetry here last year...