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...practical advantages. Starting out unruly, it never looks worse growing out, needs nothing more than a trim every four months. For women who feel Pollyannaish with short hair, the hank at the neck lends reassurance if not beauty. And for those who want to go simian but are slightly squeamish, there is always Sassoon's new way out: the Veil, with a long thin screen of hair completely covering the face. Blinking, obviously, is a nono...
Touch-tone, trim-line phones are the only phones now permitted in Currier House. This means that if a student in Currier House wants to have a phone he or she will be charged $5 more than the regular $7 installation fee. In addition the student will pay $2,50 more per month- $1.00 for trim-line service and $1,50 for touch-tone...
Residents of Currier House do not agree with this sentiment, however. Of 315 students, 234 have already signed a petition to Jerome S. Bruner, Master of Currier House, requesting that Currier House residents be permitted to have regular phones installed instead of touch-tone, trim-line phones...
...touch-tone, trim-line phone is a wall phone designed with push button dialing. Since the phone is installed on the wall instead of with a long cord, it will make it more difficult for students to share private phones, thus making the phones even more costly...
Moreover, the strike is likely to trim down any third-quarter economic upturn (see box, page 72). One consequence is that the industrial-production index, which declined in August for the first time in five months, will fall further. If the strike lasts more than six weeks, it will depress many businesses indirectly connected with the auto industry. In that case, lower corporate profits and more unemployment will sink the federal budget deeper in the red, increasing the prospects for a tax increase. The Nixon Administration expects that the strike will be over in six to eight weeks...