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Harvard at least is wealthy enough to provide substantial financial aid to its students, and 60 per cent of undergraduates avail themselves of grants, loans and University jobs. Congress is trying to help out, too, and is currently debating two financial aid plans that would particularly benefit students from middle-income families who are not eligible for other Federal programs requiring greater financial need...
Father John Navone, an American who teaches at the Jesuits' Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, says such perplexities "no longer can be solved by a one-man fiat. The new Pope must avail himself of the wisdom of the church by calling a Vatican III to resolve the momentous doctrinal, disciplinary and moral problems...
Five times in the last ten years, the Souris River has flooded its banks and sent many of the 35,000 citizens of Minot, N.Dakota, scurrying to higher land. The U.S. Government has poured funds into various flood control measures, but to little avail; and now Congress is considering construction of a $100 million dam that would flood some 30,000 acres of land upstream from the town...
...dispiriting film, the saddest moments belong to Dudley Moore, who plays a frustrated sex fiend whom Hawn keeps coming across. He is desperate for laughs, and Higgins, is frantic to provide them, but to no-or at least embarrassing avail. Higgins was the author of the popular Silver Streak; if you didn't realize it then, you will surely now understand how great was his debt to resourceful Richard Pryor for saving that similarly noisy and tasteless venture. Higgins should not make a move without...
...wake of the Corporation's report, the events of the upcoming days are practically impossible to predict. Students have exhausted traditional means of protest, apparently to no avail. We hope that non-violent protest will continue; whatever transpires, however, the Corporation will have only itself to blame...