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...bill includes a provision that would raise the age at which tenured faculty can be forced to retire from 65 to 70. The proposed legislation, which congressional aides predict will pass both houses of Congress within a month, may well tighten the already glutted market for jobs in academia even further...
Members of TIME'S Board of Economists predict that the Federal Reserve soon will ease its Regulation Q and allow commercial banks to pay higher interest on passbook savings, which can be withdrawn at any time. Regulation Q now sets a ceiling of 5% on them. If that is raised, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board also would have to permit savings and loans to pay more than their present 5½% maximum. Otherwise, savers would be tempted to pull out their money and invest it in Treasury bills and other paper that yield...
Bane said earlier this week that they will "project the trends of the past into the future," in order to predict what families will be like at the end of this century. Trends the speakers will examine include the increasing number of married women joining the work force, the rising divorce rate that results in many kids spending part of childhood with only one parent, and the changing roles of parents. The forum will meet at 8 p.m. in the First Parish Church of Cambridge, 3 Church St., just off the Square...
...spoke with one middle-class, conservative wheat farmer from Freonia, Tex., who said, "If we plow up our fields I predict within two years we'll be under an entirely different form of government, because we'll run out of food before we get another crop...
...suspense. Finally, there is hell to pay. Kotto, playing a sometime small-time criminal, is murdered in a particularly grueling way. The union buys off Pryor with a shop steward's job. Keitel finally turns FBI stoolie. In short, their venture into crime and/or conscience, as one could predict from their earlier lives, ends with our heroes getting, as they would surely put it, screwed again. Indeed, at the film's close the two survivors have lost the one good thing in their lives -their sustaining camaraderie...