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...team a pointed pep talk: "I don't want any free spirits around here. All I want are football players who want to win." Thomas, who describes himself as "a modified version of a Hessian," apparently didn't get the message. When Mazur tried to adjust his stance in the backfield formation, Thomas said that he preferred to do it his way. Just like that, Thomas was sent packing and Garrett was called back from Dallas. At week's end Thomas said that he would consider rejoining the Cowboys on one condition: if the players voted that...
...past 2½ years Hurst has presided over Chicago's Malcolm X College, one of seven two-year community colleges run by the city. This fall, enrollment will increase to 5,000, making Malcolm X one of the largest black undergraduate colleges in the nation. By bluntly adjusting higher education to urban black students rather than trying to adjust the students to the curriculum, Hurst has already been enormously successful in solving depressingly familiar problems...
...million miles away. With a push of the appropriate button, he could swing it across the mountain-ringed horizon, raise it up to focus on a peak or lower it to peer down Hadley Rille. He could zoom in on the astronauts for a closeup or even adjust the lens opening to compensate for the moon's harsh lighting conditions...
...long last overrode the objections of manufacturers, and said that beginning in July of 1973 it will ban the sale of any children's sleepwear (up to size 6X) that has not been flameproofed. The overly long two-year grace period will give manufacturers a chance to adjust their production processes to the new standards. After next June, any flammable children's sleepwear must bear a label declaring its susceptibility to fire and stating clearly that it does not meet Government standards...
...deteriorating. Unless new actions are taken, the new government will probably be unstable and ineffectual and the VC will probably continue to extend their hold over the population and territory. It can be expected that, soon (6 months? two years?), (a) government officials at all levels will adjust their behavior to an eventual VC takeover, (b) defections of significant military forces will take place, (c) whole integrated regions of the country will be totally denied to the GVN, (d) neutral and/or left-wing elements will enter the government, (e) a popular front regime will emerge which will invite...