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Epps feels enough vacancies will occur by the end of the semester to absorb any Harvard men wanting to move back to the Houses. "Vacancies depend on leaves of absence and withdrawals and we think there will be enough ? them. We have people leaving every week for various reasons...
...eighty-two cents bought me a train ticket to the show. In the courtroom of the conspiracy trial that day I felt again like the country boy who could only marvel at all of this Americana (be it good or evil) and feel very lonely in my inability to absorb all that was happening...
...Regan drove a hard bargain. Exchange officials had to agree to assess the 578 member firms a total of $30 million to guarantee Merrill Lynch against losses that it might suffer in taking over Good-body. At week's end, it was still uncertain whether Merrill Lynch will absorb Goodbody by itself, or sell some Goodbody offices to other firms. Such sales would please both federal trustbusters and some competitors who grumble about how much bigger the Goodbody bail-out will make Merrill Lynch. Some exchange members may balk at voting for the assessment but,if necessary, officers...
...nervous," says Leonard. "It will absorb as much energy as I have." He has plenty. Thin, dark blond, wearing horn-rims and rumpled clothes, he walks with a schoolmaster stoop, chain-smokes and has a disarmingly direct way of tackling almost anything. Four years ago, he tutored pupils in an antipoverty program in Roxbury, Mass.; in the same year, he worked with migrant labor gangs in a New England apple orchard...
...seven million South Vietnamese-nearly half of the population of the country-now live in concentration camps. Some of the camps are near the major cities, but many are placed around American army bases to absorb the NLF mortar attacks. Saigon now has 2,800,000 people in it, making it the densest city in the world-twice as crowded as Tokyo...