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...economy has ridden on the backs of endless flocks of sheep. Today it rests more comfortably on the gigantic power shovels of the new mines. The economy boasts a steady if unspectacular annual growth rate of 3%, and the country has had virtually full employment for 25 years. "Positions Vacant" columns fill acres of newsprint every day, but Australians note that unemployment is on the rise-from .96% to 1.2% in the past year. Such a rate would go almost unnoticed in the U.S. or Western Europe...
However, a majority of the nominees for the Board-12 of the 14 candidates for the six posts vacant this year-do not have to produce petitions. They are nominated by the AHA. Ballots are mailed to all alumni and the election of new Overseers is announced at Commencement...
...grant, which was part of a $33.6 million award to the MBTA announced yesterday in Washington by Senator Edward W. Brooke (R Mass.), will provide around two-thirds of the funds needed for the construction of an MBTA train-storage and repair station on the site of the now-vacant Penn Central railyards on Dover St. in Boston...
...month before Kissingers tenure ended last Jan. 20, the Government Department unanimously voted an expression of hope that he would return, and decided to hold vacant his professorship for at least a year...
...three private citizens on the commission, Banfield assumes a post which ahs been vacant since president Nixon took office. The commission, which meets every three months, is composed of 26 officials from all branches of government...