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Harvard is using its credit to back-up all loans to the housing project, Putnam said...
...shuns a large security force, once walked a foreign visitor back to his hotel late at night, and enjoys driving himself about in his silver Peugeot 504 with a car of security men in tow. He has of late given up an initial penchant for trying to lose the back-up car in the whirls of Paris traffic. On routine trips into the countryside, four or five agents of the Service of Official Trips accompany the President, a force that grows to 25 when he is confronted with large holiday crowds. As in most European countries, local forces are expected...
...biggest factor in Harvard's kicking game is the injury to junior Jim Curry, who was the back-up to All-American Pat McInally last season. "I don't know how far we can go without him," Restic said...
McCoy Tyner finishes off a strong week with a six-day outing at the Jazz Workshop beginning Sunday. Tyner is another brillant planist who has gone far past the days when he played second to John Coltrane. This mostly romantic player will bring his usual stable of excellent back-up musicians and some new numbers to the Workshop...
VANCE D. BRAND, 44, the blond, boyish-looking command-module pilot, is the quiet man of the American crew. A former Marine Corps and civilian test pilot with a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado, he joined the astronaut corps in 1966, and was a back-up crewman for several moon flights and Skylab. One of the pluses of being involved in the joint flight, says Brand, is "having an opportunity to see how another culture operates." Among ins discoveries: spacemen are far better known in Russia than in the U.S. Not much interested in publicity inmself...