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Some professors at the two schools regarded the student spies as an outrageous violation of academic freedom. Campus authorities, as well as many students, saw it differently. Cornell Provost Dale R. Corson said that the school had always assisted police in drug investigations and would continue to do so. Fairleigh...
Why the oil boom? High demand, basically. To the astonishment of industry experts, who had planned for a 31% upswing this year, domestic consumption is 5% ahead of 1965. Because Americans are driving more cars than ever, gasoline sales are up nearly 4%. Kerosene sales have risen 15%, mostly because...
The reason for this upswing in female employment is the shortage of skilled and semiskilled labor, which has become so acute that Federal Manpower Expert Howard Stambler says: "There are almost no men left." Unemployment is down to 3.8%-mostly unskilled-and job openings for trained people are increasing. The...
Wall Street's bulls like to joke that "no Fifth Avenue mansions have been built by bears." The bulls are wrong. Though most investment profits have indeed been made on upswing, Bernard Baruch bagged one of his first fortunes by bearishly selling short in Amalgamated Copper in 1901, and...
Aware of Dangers. Goaded into action, Lyndon Johnson summoned his top economic advisers to the White House for a three-hour nighttime meeting. The President, too, had been well aware of the dangers of the upswing in interest rates, but had decided to play a waiting game, hoping that monetary...