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...fastest-rising practitioners of the art is Howard Ruff, 48, a smiling, pleasant fellow who works out of San Ramon, Calif. He is the author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (Times Books; $8.95), a guide for survival in "the next recession, which will happen some time shortly after the publication of this book," as it states on page 15. Says Ruff, whose tremulous text has gone into its fourth printing and is in fourth place on TIME'S nonfiction bestseller list: "There is cynicism about Government and institutions and an immense searching for someone...
...Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff...
...Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff...
...official spring season commences April 7 at Penn, in a test that could indicate if the team will prosper among the Ivy League elite. The next day, Harvard faces Princeton, a squad that Felske admits might be beyond the Crimson's range. Another key test comes at Dartmouth, April 16, where the netwomen take on the team that won the New Englands. A week later, it's Yale at the Palmer-Dixon courts, another match bound to stretch the team beyond its limits...
...westward, few Indians roamed the plains. Those who did were poor and, by later standards, unimpressive. Population pressure increased, forcing some tribes into grasslands. At the same time, Indians realized the horse offered the speed needed to hunt buffalo extensively. Not until then did any Plains tribes begin to prosper, let alone thrive. Only then did the buffalo hunt, made feasible by the horse, become the tribes' mainstay. Only then did the cultures undergo rapid adaptation and change. As warring and raiding became increasingly important, horses, wives and scalps signified wealth and success. The stereotypical Plains Indians came into being...