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Last year's 2438 applications set a record for Radcliffe. The numbers have tended to rise in the last five years, except for the class of 1970, when applications fell from...
Some of the temporary effects were equally spectacular. Surging waves generated by the quake reached as high as 220 ft. above sea level near Valdez. Some 2,800 miles from the epicenter, at Hilo, Hawaii, the seismic sea wave caused the ocean to rise 121 ft. And in Antarctica, 8,445 miles away, the tsunami was recorded 221 hours after Alaska had shaken, having crossed the vast expanse of water at 430 m.p.h...
...shock waves from the earthquake also caused seiches (water oscillations) in rivers, lakes and protected harbors along the U.S. Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. At New Orleans, a drawbridge tender felt the span shake beneath his feet, and a sudden rise of from 1½ to 5 ft. in the level of the Mississippi caused docked vessels to break loose from their moorings. In Atlantic City, N.J., (more than 4,000 miles from the quake), the thorough scientists report, water sloshed over the top of a hotel swimming pool...
Chrysler's 95,000 workers seemed likely to ratify their national settlement. Under the terms, the $4.64 an hour the average worker now gets in wages and benefits would rise over a three-year period by almost a dollar, virtually the same increase agreed on at Ford. Beyond that, U.A.W. Boss Walter Reuther and his aide Douglas Fraser won some extras, notably a Chrysler commitment to raise the wages of its 11,000 Canadian workers over the next 30 months to the same level as those of U.S. workers, who now earn an average 34? an hour more...
Columbia wil start its rise from eighth to sixth with a 32-20 victory over Penn. Both teams have good quarterbacks, but only the Lions have a defense...