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Coach Bill McCurdy stresses his team's resilience, its ability to absorb losses and still come out on top. "We worked much harder than last year's squad," McCurdy said yesterday. "This is as good as any team we've ever had and maybe better...
...recent study completed by the Office shows that if all the wives of students here on visas throughout the country were allowed to seek jobs, only 4000 would join the labor force. "University communities alone could easily absorb these workers without displacing any Americans," Mrs. Hall said...
...TRANSPORTATION. Creation of a Cabinet-level Department of Transportation that would absorb a heterogeneous horde of agencies (total budgets: $6 billion) which are now scattered through the federal bureaucracy with responsibilities ranging from regulation of Great Lakes pilotage (Commerce) to the Government-run Alaska Railroad (Interior...
...equally strong will. During the Civil War she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, then, at the age of 23, traveled to Paris. Degas first opened her eyes. Wrote Cassatt: "I used to go and flatten my nose against the picture dealer's window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life...
...good old American comic strips have long served a dual audience: kids read them for yuks, while grownups pretend to absorb all sorts of profound meanings from the billowing balloons. Television, on the other hand, has stuck to a single standard: simple-minded cartoons for kids, simple-minded programs of every other variety for grownups. Now all that is changed. Television has brought the comics to adults. It comes in the form of Batman, a new twice-a-week hyperthyroid series on ABC. Produced with an enormous amount of pulp and circumstance, it has become an overnight smash...