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...from the University of Wisconsin, where he garnered a degree in business administration. He first emerged from the pack of personable young officers assigned to White House social duties when he was called to be a fourth at bridge for Lynda and two friends. The foursome soon shrank to a twosome. They spent the Labor Day holiday together outside Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on a stretch of sand known popularly as "Whisky Beach" or "the Passion Pit," which the Chamber of Commerce now wants renamed more decorously in honor of their courtship...
Still, the Treasury's once vast hoard of the metal shrank by mid-May to a mere 485 million oz. (a quarter of its 1960 size) as the Government was forced to stick to its policy of selling silver at a low-pegged price. For if the price of silver rises above $1.40 per oz., it becomes theoretically profitable to melt silver dimes, quarters and pre-1966 half dollars for their metallic content...
Alaska will probably be first to resolve its gubernatorial contest, which became a guessing game when Democratic Governor William Egan 1) conceded the election, thinking that he had lost by at least 2,500 votes to Republican Walter Hickel, 2) de-conceded after Hickel's lead shrank, but 3) refused to re-concede when the final unofficial count gave Hickel a margin of 887 votes. At week's end the first official canvass of returns was incomplete and the inevitable recount not yet begun. Election authorities hoped to finish...
...fail" grades the first year. M.I.T., tired of the student refrain that "Tech is hell," has similarly loosened its freshman and sophomore course load, broken up its long-standard curriculum. "In the past, if a fellow was too short we stretched him, and if he was too long we shrank him-now we try to mold the system around the class," says Physics Professor George Valley...
Still, there were a lot of inflationary forces left. Unemployment shrank a tenth of a point in September to 3.8% of the labor force, thus aggravating the labor shortage. Sales of new 1967 model autos began so briskly that General Motors and Ford tacked on heavy Saturday overtime to lift production. The total economy, which cooled its feverish expansion during the second quarter, heated up again in the third quarter; gross national product rose by $13.6 billion, and corporate profits reached new highs (see box, following page). The Labor Department reported that consumer prices jumped by a substantial...