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...feeling that inflation is inevitable may finally be giving way to a touch of welcome uncertainty. In Paris last week, Federal Reserve Board Governor Andrew F. Brimmer predicted that the economy's real growth, which reached 5% last year, would slow to a rate of 3% or less by the end of this year. But many other economists and corporate policymakers predict an appreciably higher-or lower-rate of growth. When opinions divide and uncertainty becomes widespread, decision makers begin to act with caution, holding back buying plans. That tends to retard economic growth and inflation...
...view of the complex issues involved, however, it would be irresponsible for me to try to predict at this time whether or not the Faculty can fully consider and act upon a proposal to reform the grading system before the end of the academic year, since the Faculty has not even seen the proposal in question and since the Faculty is already heavily engaged in working out various other proposals and new programs which other groups of students are eager to have resolved. Dean Bok Dean of the Law School
...Social Report, prepared under the direction of Mancur Olson, an economist with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Two years in the making, the study charges that while the U.S. has-in theory, at least-learned how to regulate its economy, it has been ill-prepared to predict riots or determine its social needs and goals. Toward a Social Report contends that systematically marshaling "social indicators" would provide the nation with a working tool for the setting of social priorities...
Harvard Coach Bill McCurdy went out on a limb to predict new records in the 60-yard dash, the 60-yard hurdles, and the 440--all new events in the GBC meet. Boston College runners are slight favorites in the hurdles and dash, but Harvard sophomore Walt Johnson may return to prominence in the hurdles. Chris Alvord and John Schneider could provide a challenge in the dash. Steve Wimberly will lead the Crimson contingent in the quarter-mile...
...Nixon's behind-the-scenes action in his administration's first domestic crisis has measurably dampened hopes for a swing away from conservative campaign stands. Although the administration's final policy on Southern segregation is still hard to predict, the skirmishes and furor of the last two weeks suggest that Nixon's policy will be a step backwards from Lyndon Johnson's hard-line stand...