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...best all around swimmer in Harvard's history, was instrumental in leading the Crimson to its first undisputed Ivy swimming title last year. He maintained a mastery over his Ivy opponents in the butterfly and individual medley throughout the season and took three individual crowns in the Eastern Seaboard Championships in March...
...fate of farm laborers in northern California--wages, health, housing--is better than in other states. Better, for instance, than on the eastern seaboard. This doesn't make that fate any better. Interstate migrancy has diminished due partly to mechanization, and partly to other forms of labor exploitation such as day-haul programs, which make it possible to tap the large pool of unemployed in the cities. In any case, being a seasonal laborer, migrant or non-migrant, means dangerous work (farm work is the third most dangerous occupation in California), low wages, abysmally low yearly incomes, unemployment and poor...
...reason for Allegheny's success is that its routes are heavily concentrated in the densely populated East ern Seaboard area. Another reason is the management strategy of Barnes, 57, an earthy, fiercely cost-efficient administrator. In 21 years in the corporate cockpit, Barnes has steadily strengthened Allegheny through precise scheduling and by ridding it of its small-town runs. Barnes also runs a marketing and planning division that probably is the best in the industry. Two years ago, he inspired a joint ticketing and routing operation with Pan American that enables an Allegheny passenger in, say, Canton, Ohio...
According to a statistical profile of the class released Saturday afternoon, most of its members live on the Eastern seaboard or in California and the overwhelming majority have gone on to some graduate or professional school...
India's Parsi community has been further diminished by emigration to other countries, but that could possibly be the religion's salvation. In New York last week, when Parsis from the Eastern seaboard gathered to mark the spring equinox with a New Year's festival, many of the couples present were mixed marriages in which the Parsi father raises his children in the old religion. The Parsis of the New World (as well as a few in India) have also hit on a resolution of the burial problem-apparently without breaking the tenets of their faith...