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...while Kennedy will carry Cambridge by a large margin, it may not be as overwhelming as some predicted--the campus vote, once expected to unite with the vast majority of the neighborhood Kennedy vote, may shrink before the election a week from Tuesday...
Total enrollment is expected to shrink dramatically from the present record 11.5 million as the last of the baby-boom generation graduate by 1983. Pinched by the loss of all that tuition and by rising costs, schools will be under pressure to hawk their wares in the student marketplace. As the council sees it, the result will be a shift away from traditional academic disciplines and toward instruction in vocational skills like nursing and accounting. The change is already visible in community colleges and lesser-ranked four-year institutions. Observes the report: "Excellence was the theme. Now it is survival...
...tends to re-create the old me-Tarzan-you-Jane sex roles -once the game gets started, a perfectly sensible woman becomes dithery and feebleminded and every spidery little fellow starts pounding around like Mean Joe Greene. And heaven help the woman who takes her limerence problem to a shrink! Tennov thinks that limerence is as likely to break out in psychotherapy (me shrink, you supplicant) as almost anywhere else. This may be why you hear about so many shrinks limerencing their patients. On the other hand, you have to admit that Tennov doesn't much like shrinks...
...such names as Midnight Blush, Ginger Interlude, and seduction Night Sienna. The Timex and Bulova displays are cruelly juxtaposed on another counter, just across, to remind you that you are old, or will be soon, and will be in want of makeup. Back at the makeup counter, you shrink under the sullen gaze of the desperately nubile females trapped in their placards. There are piles of solemn light green pamphlets like the AWAKE pamphlets the Jehovah Witnesses push on passersbys. IS SKIN PERFECTIBLE? catechize the covers. Is man? you think is the older question, but inured to devaluations of this...
...hard up for cash is the corps that it is reluctantly planning to shrink itself. Through attrition, it will drop to 179,000 by mid-1980, a reduction of 10,000. Says a senior Marine officer: "We are reducing manpower to pay our bills. There is no sense in having a force like the Marine Corps if it does not have the means...