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DIED. Allen Tate, 79, influential Southern poet, critic and teacher; in Nashville. A Kentuckian who as a boy longed to be another Edgar Allan Poe, Tate was a brilliant, arrogant senior at Vanderbilt University when he was invited to join a group of older poets known as the Fugitives, which included his teacher John Crowe Ransom. Believing that industrialism would ruin the South, Tate was for a time an agrarian and always venerated what he saw as the stability and simplicity of the Old South. He taught at a number of colleges, mainly the University of Minnesota, and helped found...
...Allan P. Slaff, assistant dean for administrative operation of the Business School, said similar fire-alarm problems occurred about three years ago, but he added malicious individuals are not responsible...
...been a pioneer in the effective use of the computer as a means of communicating the large volumes of information in an easily comprehensible form, to the non-technically oriented user," Allan Schmidt, executive director of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, said yesterday...
Accept Insults-for a Price. To raise funds for a new science building, students at Maine's Unity College sold raffle tickets entitling them to throw pies at faculty members. Past President Allan Karstetter squashed a pie on his own face to collect a $200 stake put up for the occasion by one of his trustees...
...sent back so lower courts can reconsider evidence of Kaiser's past discrimination. But Weber, now a $20,000-a-year lab technician at the Kaiser plant, says he is optimistic about winning in the high court. If he does, he may become an even more important symbol than Allan Bakke. Unlike Bakke, who used to duck publicity, Weber says he doesn't mind "the notoriety." A loquacious Cajun and father of three who is fond of fishing, he likes to be photographed in his hard hat. In fact, Weber plans to go to Washington to hear his case argued...