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...education division distributes aid to schools and colleges and helps fund Sesame Street, the TV program that delights and instructs the nation's small fry. There are other programs for ethnic studies and for mastering the metric system. Human development services provide help for the handicapped, as well as runaway youths, abused children, Indian tribes and Alaskan natives. HEW also runs Head Start, a program that prepares disadvantaged youngsters for school. It offers vocational rehabilitation, "meals on wheels" for older people who cannot leave their homes, vending stands to be operated by the blind. In sum, HEW is as broad...
...wholesale prices in March rose at an annual rate of 7.4%-seemingly encouraging, since the February rate had been a staggering 14%. But the increase for the whole first quarter ran at an annual rate of 9.6%, within reach of the double-digit range that separates merely unacceptable from runaway inflation. G. William Miller, the new chairman of the Federal Re serve Board, projects that inflation for the year is likely to average 6.5% to 7%. a higher forecast than the Administration's official prediction, but one that seems more likely to be right...
...Classics defeated the Harvard freshmen for the first time in their history to provide another of this year's highlights. Gordon Johnson and Fritz Mayer led the Classics to the 86-55 runaway victory at the IAB last month...
...looked like a runaway victory for Yale as it swept six of the first seven bouts to amass a commanding 22-6 lead. Harvard's only points came on a pin at the 142-lb. class, where the Crimson's Keith Oberg deposited Dave Miller on his back...
Spending $500 million to expand in the beer business, Miller introduced the 7-oz. "pony" bottle and bought the Lite label for its low-calorie brew, which became a runaway success; Miller staged a high-budget ad campaign that featured Mickey Spillane and ex-Football Star Bubba Smith to give a macho image to Lite. In order to crack the highest-priced market segment, which has been dominated by Anheuser-Busch's Michelob and imports, Miller last October began national sales of Lowenbrau made under license in its U.S. breweries...