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...Like many coaches, U.C.L.A.'s John Wooden professes that "illegal recruiting is the bane of college athletics." He is virtually alone, however, in wanting to abolish the flesh trade altogether on the grounds that "our universities should stand on their own merits." Rival coaches, victimized by Wooden basketball teams that have won 75 consecutive games and seven straight national championships, understandably scoff at the proposal. Wooden, they say, can afford to take such an upright stand because U.C.L.A. has long attracted the best high school players on prestige alone. Last week, in fact, Richard Washington of Portland, Ore., considered...
...they are the same), without becoming a stylist is one of the 20th century's dreams. It presupposes a return to the origins of form, to the half-articulate, the instinctive: uncensored desire. Me Tarzan, you Raphael. Dubuffet's art speaks directly to anyone who wants to abolish the humanist past-that area of art that insists that man is the flower of the universe and can, by force and subtlety of intellect, control it. His images assert the opposite: a nude becomes a lump of hairy pink clay with a pinhead, swagging numbles and a skin...
...reform is designed to abolish much of the power of the chief supervisors, or glavki, in the 34 industrial ministries in Moscow. The glavki will be limited to setting long-term investment and technological policies. They have proved adept at sabotaging previous reforms by constantly changing production targets, setting impractical prices and otherwise meddling in the operation of faraway factories. Presumably, though, the heads of the "production associations" will have more clout in confronting the ministries than the managers of individual plants did after the last reform, because they will speak for much bigger organizations and they are supposed...
...major thrusts of these attempts were to democratize political decision, develop workers' councils modeled after those in Yugoslvia, and abolish censorship, Pelikan explained...
...Congress does not like that situation, Kleindienst added, it can always "cut off our funds, abolish most of what we can do or impeach the President." But, asked North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, how could the President be impeached if no one in the Executive Branch could be compelled to testify or supply evidence in the impeachment proceedings? Answered Kleindienst, in an amazing interpretation of proper legal procedure: "You don't need facts to impeach a President...