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Nonetheless, 730,000 workers were laid off last week and queued up at unemployment offices to register for government benefits. The number is expected to swell to 3,000,000 if the crisis lasts until the end of January. According to Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Labor's shadow cabinet Minister of Trade and Industry, the social security costs in such an event alone would run to $92 million a week...
...popular vote in France, which will take place next week, and after Heath suggested the possibility of a plebiscite on the Northern Ireland border issue, Wilson again reversed his stand. He backed a proposal by the chairman of the party's national executive committee, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, that Labor support a referendum amendment being moved by a small band of antiMarket Conservative M.P.s...
...stay on the team: that it's illegal and a detriment to the team and Harvard. Yet the majority of the team, including some of his stars, at least occasionally smoke dope and a number are into or have been into considerably heavier trips. The upperclassmen report that Benn Merritt and Harold Miroff were beginning to grasp something of the context of drug use here and finding it less horrifying than they had feared. Don Gambril and Skip Kenney have a longer way to go. Kenney was talking to Rich Baughman after practice one day. Baughman having complained about being...
...interview with former assistant coach, almost head coach, and now J.V. coach Benn Merritt he suddenly turned to me and said. "I'd like you to know this and I don't care whether or not you print it. My swimmers (the J.V. team) and I went skiing together last weekend. I've never known a finer group of guys and we had a great time together. I guess I've always believed that swimming ought...
...including George Haines. Indiana's Doc Counsilman, Long Beach's Don Gambril, and USC's Peter Dayland. The list was whittled down, coaches flown in for interviewing, and the committee came down to their final two prospects--Merritt and Gambril. The vote was 4-3 for Benn, nevertheless Gambril was hired as Harvard's new head swimming coach. Baron Pittenger described what happened this way. "Undergraduates on a selection committee will always choose the known over the unknown. Their personal loyalty gets in the way of objectively looking at all candidates. We learned a lesson from those selection committees last...