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...market in the early part of the year. Back then, stock prices rose on the crest of a robust 9%-plus economic growth rate. For a while, stock analysts were happily forecasting an "upside breakout" that would lead the market to a new alltime high above the January 1973 peak of 1051.70. Though business began to slow in April, economists in and out of Government remained convinced that it was just a temporary lull. Investors' expectations remained high, and the Dow hovered around 1000 through most of the summer...
...only did Boston have skilled players, but the roster seemed a dream conceived on Madison Avenue. Boston had as its established star Eusebio, second only to Pele at the peak of his career. There was also Ade Coker, a young, temperamental character with flashy moves, and Shep Messing '72, a top American player who led the NASL in goals-against average last year. Messing also brought the Minutemen his playboy reputation--"the Joe Namath of soccer," they billed...
...other hand look, even at the peak of their fashionability as a liberal cause, just as the Studios wanted them to. They were all a little strange in their appearance--there was something foreign about these men with high foreheads and mustaches, thick lenses and paunches. The Committee had cast two sets of roles: American and un-American. There was no question which the writers were to play. After the oldest of the accused, John Howard Lawson, finished his emotional and over-worded lambasting of the Committee, a loud angry whisper was heard in the hearing room...
...recession-battered housing industry are cropping up elsewhere round the country. In August, housing starts were running at an annual rate of 1.5 million, up 11% from July. That is a marked improvement over a low of 880,000 starts registered in December 1974-but still well below the peak rate of almost 2.7 million posted in February...
Death Revealed. Nanda Devi Unsoeld, 22, an Olympia, Wash., coed and daughter of one of the first Americans to scale Mt. Everest (in 1963); of "acute high-altitude sickness" while on an expedition with her father on Nanda Devi, the 25,645-ft. peak in the Himalayas for which she was named; on Sept...