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...already imagine Davidson's first closed-door session when he secretly plans who will be drafting whom, hashing out the team names, and coming up with the inevitable "improvements" which will help revolutionize the "backward" sport...
Nader told an audience of about 400 at the Science Center that "Harvard is walking backward into the future" with regard to the problems of atomic energy...
...passionate cause is education. Says he: "Everything Oklahoma hopes to be is bound up in the classrooms." Partly because of his constant needling, the legislature has doubled textbook funds, reduced the state's ratio of pupils to teachers and more than tripled special classes for students who are backward, physically handicapped or gifted...
Factory groups and partisan organizations sent telegrams to Belgrade vowing to sacrifice their lives in defense of "every inch of territory." Long lines of cars began to snake backward at the border crossings, as Yugoslav guards suddenly began punctilious examinations of every vehicle entering or leaving Zone B. After Italian and U.S. forces joined in NATO naval exercises off the Adriatic coast, Belgrade mustered its own armada in a countershow of force. Last week Tito lambasted both Italy and the U.S. for endangering the security of the area with their maneuvers...
...Hearst family among his clients, believes that "the joint tax committee was, if anything, a little easy on President Nixon. Everyone looks for every reasonable deduction and there are gray areas, but an official holding office should not take chances in the gray areas. He should lean over backward to be scrupulous, rather than lean forward to squeeze it the way Nixon...