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...meters, Sheehan ran in last place for 400 meters, and moved up to second place behind Harris at the 600-meter mark. He stayed there until the bell lap, and surged past Harris with 150 meters...
...cuffs and chains were marched through the 150-ft. tunnel connecting Palermo's L'Ucciardone prison to a new highsecurity courtroom built on the prison grounds. Inside, the fan-shaped, green-and-white room, the defendants were herded into 30 cages at the rear. At 9:45 a.m., a bell rang, and Presiding Judge Alfonso Giordano entered in black robes to take his seat beneath a tall Crucifix. As a nationwide radio audience listened raptly, Announcer Carla Mosca intoned, "At this moment, the trial has begun...
...House Budget Committee, led by its low-key but & effective chairman, William Gray of Philadelphia, held hearings on Reagan's proposed cuts in five cities coast to coast. "Ronald Reagan has declared war on the city of Chicago," fumed Mayor Harold Washington. The President's "dastardly" budget, exclaimed Budd Bell, head of the Florida Clearinghouse on Human Services at a hearing in Tallahassee, "will result in the dismantling of many lifesustaining programs." Ron Anderson, president of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, denounced cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, maternal- and child-health grants and childhood immunization programs as being likely to produce...
...would like to add my support and agreement to the letter of Professor Bell of Feb. 5 concerning the uses and abuses of the so-called "shopping period" at the beginning of each term. Of course students should be permitted to visit a number of classes before making final decisions as to which to take, as we did in my own student days. But we were expected to show up on time and sit through all of any lecture we attended; if we wished to visit a class which met at the same time...
...faculty member to have people stomping in and out of a hall throughout the hour (though they do not forgive the slightest sign of nervousness), or to know that the lecture is regarded more as an audition than as a learning experience. A point Professor Bell did not raise but which should be mentioned is that in large classes, the manners established during "shopping week" tend to last all term. Last fall, I gave a Core course with an enrollment of 155 in which people walked in every day 10 or 15 minutes early, disrupting the lecture in the process...