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...become a teacher since all the women in my family had been school teachers. One of us had to be rebel." So Katherine Ernst took a small inheritance ("and it was small, even in those days") left by a grandmother and enrolled in a small secretarial school. "It was unheard of to go from Radcliffe to secretarial school," she says. "but when I went to classes the first day there were about six other women there from my class at Radcliffe. None of us had told anyone else...
...Engineers dissolved 16 years of Crimson supremacy in the 2000-meter race, while Harvard followed closely at 6:41.3, dropping its season record to an unheard-of 0-2, and Dartmouth lagged behind...
Third World Centers at major universities are not unheard of; Princeton University, for example, established one ten years ago following student protests...
Suicide runs through Get Happy!!, sometimes surfacing directly, always thumping as an unheard thematic backbeat, life's metaphor for despair. It's the message of "Five Gears in Reverse," shouted inside a garage, sounds like it, in a voice choked with carbon monoxide. Elvis sings...
Interest rates scaled absolutely unheard-of peaks. Several banks raised the prime rate on loans to business to 17¾%, and a big bank in Chicago went up to 18%. The rate on U.S. Treasury bills, a risk-free investment, shot to 15%, vs. 10% only last September. The stock market shivered and sank through a nervous week. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged to 821, down 43 points for the week and 83 points since 1980's high of 904 reached only a month...