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...April fell back to an annual rate of 2,100,000, down about 16% from their peak of 2,500,000 in January. The number of new building permits issued across the nation-an indicator of how many starts will be recorded in future months -took an even sharper fall of 18%, to an annual rate of 1,800,000 units (see chart). That was the biggest monthly drop since the Government began tabulating figures on permits more than 80 years ago. "The widely predicted end of the housing boom of 1971-72 has finally arrived," declares George A. Christie...
...Concerned about the growing misuse of amphetamines, the U.S. Government last year restricted the production of the powerful addictive stimulants, and has proposed still sharper cuts for 1973. Last week the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the Food and Drug Administration went even further by recalling most diet drugs containing amphetamines. The bureau made it illegal for manufacturers to ship either combination diet pills or injectable amphetamines in interstate commerce. It also requested manufacturers to destroy their stocks of amphetamine-bearing drugs and to recall and destroy those on the market. The action should remove most amphetamines from...
...Editorial Board was the most exciting thing happening at The Crimson in the new building. For the first time, late night reviews of Boston and Cambridge plays were written and run the morning after opening night. With the President no longer doing editorials singlehandedly, the paper took a sharper editorial stance. Through the Spring of 1915. The Crimson ardently opposed involvement in the First World War, a controversial but well articulated position which R.H. Stiles '16 reversed when he became President in the autumn of 1915. With the exception of "the crew scandal, in which the paper charged favoritism...
...skilled as photographers. Apollo 17 proved to be no exception to the rule. Last week, as NASA began releasing pictures shot by the Apollo 17 crew, it be came clear that the last lunar mission had produced the best photography of the entire Apollo program: more brilliant in color, sharper in detail and more imaginative in overall composition...
...note was struck by Leonid Brezhnev shortly after the Nixon summit; with the cold war between the superpowers effectively at an end, the Soviet Party boss in a Moscow speech last June called for a new ideological struggle that would "intensify to become an even sharper form of confrontation between the two societies." In practice, Brezhnev's new offensive is essentially defensive. While they court their new trading partners in the West with unwonted cordiality, the East-bloc regimes are cracking down on their own societies with uncommon force...