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...leading indicators that are supposed to foretell the future course of business have been down slightly for the past three months in a row. In August, industrial production declined for the first time since January, and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.1%; joblessness among blacks equaled its post-World War II high. All that has stirred talk of lasting slowdown in the economy-or even a new recession...
...longer term, demand is kept high, probably too high, by a post-World War II psychological phenomenon. Americans have come to look on a home of their own?and a pretty big, detached, single-family house at that?as not just a desire but a need and almost a right. They are being unrealistic. To shelter the entire nation in spaced-out, single-family houses near metropolitan centers would be a physical impossibility; to house even a substantial portion that way is turning out to be enormously expensive...
...speed, Carew completely avoids the modern hitter's greatest weakness: the instinct to pull the pitch on the shortest line to the nearest fence. The lust for the long ball and the glory of homers has contributed as much to the decline in high-average hitters in the post-World War II era as the oft-cited rise of relief pitching. Trying to cream a fastball low and away is a sure way to strike...
...necessary part of maintaining a good athletic program, and part of keeping up the good image that helps the school "sell itself." Robert B. Watson '37, retiring athletic director and former dean of students, credits the College's active recruitment program with helping Harvard adapt to the post-World War II generation of students. "You've just got to have a varied student body, and that includes athletes, if you're going to continue to attract the right kind of students, he says. As a result, the ancient taboo against recruiting in any form does not blind the admissions office...
Died. Roberto Rossellini, 71, Italian film director who introduced neo-realistic films during the post-World War II period; of an apparent heart attack after returning from the Cannes Film Festival; in Rome. Rossellini made his reputation with Open City, a film clandestinely made in Italy in 1944, and followed this success with Paisan, Germany, Year Zero and dozens of other films and TV movies. His enduring companion was Actress Anna Magnani, who is buried in his family mausoleum, but he also had a highly publicized affair with Ingrid Bergman. Finally married in 1950, they parted...