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PROVIDENCE. R.I.--Newly named Olympic crew coach Harry Parker unveils his 1972 version of the Harvard heavyweights here today in the Stein Cup against Brown on the Seekonk River...
...grocery prices in 14 years-almost 23% at an annual rate. Since the start of Phase II, the consumer price index has risen at a rate of 4.9%, v. 4.1% in the six months before Nixon imposed the freeze last August. Moreover, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Herbert Stein expects another bulge in meat costs next month because of shortages. After that, he says, an increasing amount of meat coming on the market will push prices down...
...opposite wall, where his grown-up self seems to stare back from the commanding eyes of a self-portrait of the painter, urging the viewer to join the horse behind an innovative spirit embarked on a journey of artistic adventure. The self-portrait dates from 1901. Gertrude Stein remembers this year,"...one day we were discussing the dates of his pictures, and I was saying to him that all that could not have been painted during one year (1901). Picasso answered, you forget we were young and we did a great deal in a year...
Americans (55%) are dissatisfied with the way these "yardsticks" are working, undoubtedly because they believe that store prices are rising faster than paychecks. Stein gave a hint of Nixon's future response by remarking that "the possibility of permanent price controls, until they break down of their own contradictions, is probably enhanced by the election of someone other than Mr. Nixon." His comment raised the intriguing possibility that the President, having imposed the broadest economic controls since the Korean War, might campaign for re-election on a promise to abolish them...
...Still another Boston locution is the proliferation of the word "there," uttered as often and as meaninglessly as "well" elsewhere in the U.S. To wit: "When he was in Billerica the last time there," or, "So this broad hollers at me there." It would gladden the heart of Gertrude Stein there...