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...Braniff award brought matters to a real boil. The airline had been fined for making illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. Now the political wind has shifted from San Clemente to the South-and Braniff has influence there too. Virtually the entire Texas congressional delegation lobbied Carter. Says one airline lawyer: "They hit the White House like dive bombers from the Confederate air force...
...movie is hard to dismiss, for its prefab ingredients are often stirred to a boil. Energetically directed and well acted (largely by unknowns), Saturday Night Fever succeeds in capturing the animal drive of disco music and the social rituals of the people who dance to its beat. Were it not for some failures of dramatic nerve in the second half, this film might actually have been the rock-'n'-roll Rocky it so desperately aspires...
...want to give Loyal Park or anyone else the idea that football is my favorite sport, but the old plasma came to a near boil yesterday when I checked out the Coaches All-Ivy football team for this past season...
...when you boil down the whole Celtic mess, things come right down to Cowens; for as Cowens goes, so go the Celtics...
...while it is necessary that Harvard's committee continue to inspect facilities and for the NIH to be constantly aware of the activities being performed in P-3 facilities, the question at hand may essentially boil down to whether or not science should be restrained. For those who are strongly opposed to the research, there must be more assurance from Washington officials that the results produced from recombinant DNA research will not be abused. But scientists performing the controversial experiments wish to proceed without limitations, and the issue will not subside until there is some compromise on both sides, which...