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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Tuesday night elected its junior eight They are; Leslie V. Altman, of Shepard House and Washington, D.C., History and Literature; Judith G. Cohen, of Warner House and Brooklyn, N.Y., Astronomy; Ingrid J. Lorch, of Jordan W and New York City, Government; Suzanne R. Bloom, of Cabot H and Kenmore, N.Y., History and Literature...
...Stocks v. Bonds. Money is costlier to borrow now than it has ever been since the Depression, and the effects of that phenomenon on the market are tremendous. A promising market rally last week fell flat after Morgan Guaranty President Thomas Gates announced a boost in the prime rate to an alltime high of 5½% . That announcement hit at 2:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, and by closing time at 3:30 the New York Stock Exchange floor was still a scene of frantic selling activity. Within little more than an hour after Morgan Guaranty's pattern...
...comments M.I.T.'s Placement Director Thomas W. Harrington. This year even more firms are sending out personnel experts to round up bodies for even more jobs than they did in a heavy campaign last year. At the University of Chicago Business School, for instance, 230 companies are recruiting v. 190 last year; so many recruiters are on campus that latecomers have to do their inter viewing in off-campus hotel rooms...
...V. the CIA & FBI. Not surprisingly, the decrease in available bodies has sent salaries up; average wages are about 5% higher this year for students with master's or bachelor's degrees. Electrical engineers, still the most sought-after group, are being offered average starting salaries of $661 a month, $20 more than last year. Chemical engineers, moving from seventh place to third on the roster of most-wanted skills, are being offered $673, higher than any other graduates. Solid salaries are being waved at every kind of diplomate: $561 a month for accountants, $662 for metallurgists...
Died. Norair Sisakyan, 59, biochemist and head of medical studies in the Soviet space program, who evaluated the pioneering tests performed on Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka during 1960's Sputnik V flight, urged that the biological aspects of manned space flights "be attacked with vigor," and since then had a major hand in every flight involving living creatures, from Yuri Gagarin in 1961 to last month's launching of two dogs in still-orbiting Cosmos 110; of undisclosed causes; reportedly in Tyuratam, U.S.S.R...