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...unemployment but how to stretch the U.S. labor force enough to keep up with a population growth of 3% yearly and a standard of living that grows much faster. With every new production climb will come new demands for shorter hours, more leisure time. Once automation hits its full stride, the 30-hour week and the three-day weekend will not be far behind...
...varsity enters the meet with an even record. The squad started the season strongly, defeating M.I.T. and Amherst, but faltered and lost to Cornell and Columbia. Regaining its stride momentarily, it beat Pennsylvania before dropping matches to Princeton and Springfield...
...James D. Zellerbach, president of Crown-Zellerbach Corp., added a personal postscript: "I don't think a billion dollars a year is too much to earmark for this economic aid job. Certainly it is not a sum which the $400 billion U.S. economy cannot take easily in its stride . . . We should be interested in working with these peoples over a continuing period of time, helping them build up their countries instead of going in only to offset the Russians . . . That way we'll build up a great deal more good will...
...Crimson enters the match with an even record. After victories over M.I.T. and Amherst, the varsity faltered and lost to Cornell and Columbia. Regaining its stride, the team edged Penn, but then was routed by Princeton...
...distance races at the Olympics have traditionally gone to Finns and Swedes, but at Cortina they were not in a class with a Leningrad student named Lyubov Kozyreva, who must have done her homework stretching her cross-country stride. She swung over the lo-kilometer (6.2-mile) course in 38:11, scant yards in front of Teammate Radiya Eroshina...