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...increased more rapidly than in any other five-month period on record. It seemed hardly credible that only 15 months ago the unemployment rate stood at a reasonably tolerable 4.6%. The news that it had cracked 8%, and added a few points for good measure, was enough to stir yet another political uproar and add fierceness to the battle already being waged over Ford's first budget. Senator Edward Kennedy was quick to call the figures "shocking new evidence of the total bankruptcy of the Ford Administration's economic policy." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott shared the clear...
...history, Auden liked to be sure that, whatever their message, each one sounded as if it could only have been written by W.H. Auden. Everything in Thank You, Fog qualifies. As with saved letters from lost sons or fathers, so with the last words of this dead poet. They stir the heart not because of what they say but because they sound like the man himself. -Timothy Foote
...things stir college-level academics more than debating the relative merits of their professional schools. Now they will have even more to argue about. Change, a magazine that reports on higher education, this month published ratings based on an extensive poll of deans at all 1,181 accredited professional schools around the nation (see box). The deans, representing schools specializing in 18 different fields of study, *were asked just one question: "What in your opinion are the top five schools in your profession...
Both men expect their conclusions to stir a storm of protest from some of their colleagues. For, as Gunn puts it, the arguments for a closed universe are almost "theological in nature." Indeed, Gunn finds the implications of an open universe thoroughly mind-boggling and paradoxical. "Even though the density of its mass is small," he explains, "the total amount of mass is infinite because space is infinitely big." Sandage agrees. "This expansion is such a strange conclusion," he says. "One's first assumption is that it cannot really be true, and yet it is the premier fact...
...time wore on, however, attention vacillated between the activity at the podium and the mau-mauing on the floor. Warren Beatty, in a designer brown tweed suit and sculptured haircut, caused quite a stir among delegates and press alike as he stood in the aisles near the California delegation signing autographs and talking with presidential hopefuls, not-so-hopefuls, and celebrities like Jesse Jackson. George Take, who played Zulu in "Star Trek," got his fair share of ogling, as did Mrs. Lorne Greene...