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...slack in the economy has also left its mark. Even in the elite schools, the fear of not finding a job this June runs high. Among seniors in liberal arts, this fear verges on panic. IBM, for example, plans to hire fewer than 50 humanities majors out of the 500 students it intends to recruit this year. Because of the general belt tightening in education, graduate students face similar bleak prospects. One future Harvard Ph.D. in English sent resumes to 108 colleges, was interviewed by only eleven, and received one offer?from the American University in Beirut...
Twenty First Century Communications (Weight Watchers, National Lampoon), which will publish the revenant Liberty, is counting on alumni loyalty to take up any advertising slack. "We can make it on single-issue sales alone," says Vice President George Agoglia, "if even half of the one million Liberty salesboys are still alive...
...while they fight the Soviet system, they also identify with it in various ways. Thus, when a Moscow tailor who settled in Tel Aviv experienced his first slack season, he demanded, "Why doesn't the government provide me with clients? In Moscow, the government sees to it that everyone gets his share." A Russian woman shopping with her Israeli brother in a Jerusalem department store was indignant when he exchanged greetings with another shopper, who turned out to be Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir. "You mean," she asked disapprovingly, "they allow government ministers into a store without first clearing away...
...amateurism as a positive value in working with other people who are in trouble in some way. The various communities PBH works with do not exist to provide undergraduates "fields in which to play." It is not the responsibility of PBH to serve the undergraduate community in any such slack manner as the subcommittee would apparently have...
Meanwhile, the sophomore line of Dave Hynes, Bob McManama, and Bill Corkery has taken up some of the slack. Corkery, for example, scored in all four games during the Christmas trip. But the situation for Harvard would look much brighter if both the sophomore and the first lines were sharp...