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Barbara's discouraging experience will be more the rule than the exception this month as some 700,000 college graduates begin their search for employment. The job situation is bad and seems to be getting worse. Last week the College Placement Council reported that there are 18% fewer jobs available for college graduates this year than there were a year ago. Job openings for engineering graduates with bachelor's degrees are down 20%; openings in the auto, building and mechanical equipment industries have plummeted 60%. Says Victor Lindquist, director of the placement office at Northwestern University: "This...
Many seniors postpone the job search by applying to graduate school. Explains John Buckley, placement director at New York University: "They go to graduate school because they don't have a $12,000-a-year job and they hope the economy will turn." Some students suffer deeply, however, when they are turned down for graduate work. "A state of panic seems to hit them," says Anthena Constantine, placement director at Columbia. Indeed, the odds for graduate-school admission can be frightening. Columbia, for example, had 5,000 applications for 300 places in its law school, 5,000 applications...
...associates that he was pleased with the execution of the rescue. The National Security Council, his aides and the military had functioned well. Yet the President ordered a review to see what lessons were to be learned. There were hints that some military equipment needed improving, that perhaps the placement of the U.S. forces in the Pacific should be changed. The success of the action provided more than a soothing balm to the American psyche and a lift for U.S. allies. Most important, the incident in the Gulf of Siam was a clear statement, in this uncertain time...
...delectably airy insouciance. Caro's sculpture from now on would be a matter of touch and gesture rather than accumulation and structure. Later works like Orangerie or even some of the unpainted, varnished steel pieces he made in 1974 at Veduggio, in Italy, conspire, in their deft placement and laconic sufficiency, toward an elegance unmatched in contemporary sculpture...
...been playing indoors all year, and it took a while to adjust to the different conditions," Barnaby said. "That wind is an equalizer, because it makes it much harder for the better player who counts on his placement shots...