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Cabot does not expect the fund to level off at this point, but he noted that he cannot predict the stock market. Harvard's stock include $10 million invested in DuPont, $12.5 million in General Motors, and $26 million...
Frankfurter seemed a prime example of the futility of trying to predict how a new justice will vote. But partisans of both sides failed to grasp his steady, if elusive, consistency. To spur "the self-confidence of a free people," he insisted on the primacy of legislative action. Thus, he lambasted the pre-1936 court for flouting the popular will. Thus, he later upheld anti-Communist laws based on detailed congressional findings. As he saw it, the court was no more entitled to second-guess the legislature in the '40s and '50s than it had been...
Blanchard McLeod, the circuit prosecutor, has a signed statement from the man who shot Jackson, claiming that the shooting was done in self-defense. McLeod will put the case before the Perry County Grand Jury within a week. Knowing the temperament of Southern courts, it is safe to predict that there will be no indictment and certainly no conviction...
...dealers predict there will be more sweaters than parkas on New England slopes this winter to. Reason for this popularity is added color. But experts point out that sweaters don't provide the same warmth as parkas, which will have to be used when the weather gets really cold...
...little brindled bitch named Indy Ann, who racked up 137 victories in the mid-1950s. Buying a hound is somewhat cheaper than buying a race horse (promising pups sell for $1,000 up), and far less chancy: unlike the ponies, greyhounds breed so true that handlers can predict the habits of a pup with a fair degree of accuracy. "If you breed two good rail runners," says Florida Trainer Oscar Duke, "at least six out of eight pups will be rail runners...