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...answer is that the Dow Jones industrials present a somewhat distorted view of the market. The average is composed of only 30 stocks, and though they do represent about one-fourth of the value of all shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, they are mostly rather staid blue chips. Partly because the Dow does not include faster-moving computer, electronic, photography and drug issues, it has been late in mirroring the market's true strength. More representative, broadly based market gauges like the New York Exchange reached record highs earlier...
...capitulated and announced that a move toward equalization would begin immediately. Accordingly a larger, blunter-tongued group of women only two and a half times as smart as their Harvard counterparts settled down in Cambridge this Fall, some even in the previously all-male Yard. Only a few staid old grads lamented the sight of women-eating breakfast by themselves at, the Union. By far the louder complaint was that progress was too slow. But even those who were impatient realized that the University was moving inexorable toward equality...
Maybe some nomadic Americans are only trying to "rediscover the natural human community," in part by escaping staid, false social values...
...Hugh. I was just thinking that a year ago. Restic and Bostonians buzzing with talk about the revolution he was going to pull off in the Harvard football program. For 13 years, the Crimson had been under the staid hand of John Yovicsin, who strongly believed in the three yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust approach to the game. You know, Yovicsin was pretty Puritan in his outlook--he wanted his squads to take just enough to get by and not give up any frivolous benefits to the opponents. Defense and grind it out'. That fitted John...
...Science Center faces other problems and other problems and other sources of disgruntlement, one of which in the large number of students who appear displeased by the very presence of this immense newcomer to the campus. Some feel that its broad lines and vast scale clash with the more staid and soft-spoken surroundings. Others simply find it ugly, or share a common distaste for anything more modern than the simple, old brick structures of the Yard...