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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vocational bent in higher education has obvious pitfalls. "This whole business of trying to pick a major to match a job is just Russian roulette," says Harvard's Freeman. Today's "hot" fields-engineering or accounting, for example-could be glutted in a few years much as aerospace science, the glamour field of the early 1960s, fell fallow by the decade's end. Besides, asks Herbert Salinger, director of career planning at Berkeley: "Should we turn someone off to a field that really interests him" because job prospects are slim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMPLOYMENT: Slim Pickings for the Class of '76 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

Parker says that he will select a tentative varsity boat next week. Until then, the crew's favorite game, "Pick the Varsity," will be played more enthusiastically and more vociferously than ever, because nobody--perhaps not even Parker--knows who will fill those eight big seats...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Harvard Crew: Learning to Deal with Uncertainty | 3/26/1976 | See Source »

...second album, "The White Sport Coat and the Pink Crustacean," is probably the pick of his litter. It has several of his best wry vignettes, and the rudest of the crude underground hits he'll be remembered by: I really do appreciate the fact you're sitting here Your voice sounds so wonderful But your face don't look so clear. So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Bashed and Buffetted | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

...fourth of the 1,130 delegates needed to win the nomination in August. He has won 88 delegates in primaries, can count on getting about 150 in the New York (April 6) and Pennsylvania (April 27) primaries, which Reagan is in effect skipping as unwinnable, and seems likely to pick up about 100 in such non-primary caucus states as Iowa, Oklahoma and Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: The Ford Bandwagon Rolls | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Versatility and ease are the keynotes of contemporary American fashion. Matching and mixing her clothes, today's woman can adapt a basic wardrobe to suit up for any occasion. TIME asked the editors of Vogue to pick a sample multipurpose wardrobe whose eleven easy, though not exactly inexpensive, pieces can be worn from spring to early fall. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: An American Wardrobe in Eleven Easy Pieces | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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