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...particularly pleased that there's no question as to the legitimacy of the school committee chair," said School Committee Member Glenn S. Koocher '71, adding that LaRosa bore "a naive courage" as a first terms politician
With flickering candles in hand, the group then snaked its way through the Yard and into the Square, shouting slogans and toting placards that bore the names of Blacks killed in the struggle against South African apartheid. People on the sidewalks along Mass. Ave clapped and cheered, and passing cars honked their horns...
Until last week no Mengele had publicly expressed an iota of remorse for the doctor's activities or cooperated with the West German inquiry. The family's aloofness and secrecy had convinced some of the frustrated West German investigators that the clan bore no sense of shame or sorrow for Josef's wartime crimes. The lack of cooperation was a major drawback for the probers, since West German law does not require family members to aid in any investigation of their kin, no matter how distant the relationship...
...responsible for the purchase of seven grotesquely priced ashtrays, including an admiral with 33 years of service, were relieved of their duties, Weinberger announced. The officers, all at the Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego, did not pay "the slightest attention to the basic idea that the price bore no relationship whatever to the value of the item," Weinberger said...
Fertility drugs, taken by women who have trouble conceiving, have been implicated in nearly all cases of mass multiple births. The all-time high, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is held by a woman in Sydney, Australia, who in 1971 bore nine babies; none survived beyond six days. Pergonal, a mixture of hormones obtained from the urine of postmenopausal women, stimulates maturation of egg-bearing follicles within the ovaries; sometimes too many eggs are eventually released. "The problem is, it's a very, very delicate balance how much of the stuff to use," says Allan Weingold...