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Despite that hatred, some brave Australians are now coming to the defense of the wild dog. "The dingo is a magnificent animal," says Film Maker Lionel Hudson, who praises it for its intelligence and highly developed senses of sight, smell and hearing. Hudson advocates domesticating the dingo and putting it to useful work-tracking down lost people and criminals or sniffing out drugs in baggage. In Victoria, a group is seeking government permission to breed and show the species...
...never asked for help, this brave warrior of old Harvard. As his clenched fists were removed from his pockets, one of them was found to contain a wadded up clipping from an old article which appeared in The Crimson of 1929. It told of how H. Wadsworth Billings III had scored the final touchdown in the Junior Varsity's dramatic 14-13 win over the Navy J. V. s. A tear froze...
...into the U.S. be brought in aboard American-made ships, rather than lower-cost foreign vessels. The measure surely would cause the price of landed foreign oil to shoot still higher; whether President Ford vetoes it will provide a test of how much political flak he is willing to brave in order to keep living costs down...
...Brave People. Jackson was doubtless happier than the others. Against considerable odds and precedent, he had used legislative pressure to alter the domestic policy of another superpower. His amendment, to be incorporated in the bill that will probably clear Congress this year, was accepted on the basis of assurances from the Soviets that emigration would be stepped up and not impeded. Punitive measures against those applying for exit visas are to be halted...
...year (compared to the high of 35,000 in 1973). After 18 months, Congress would review the Soviets emigration practices and decide whether to renew the Soviets' trade status. Jackson praised Kissinger and declared: "We have agreed upon an unprecedented measure to bring the blessings of liberty to those brave men and women who have asked only for the chance to find freedom in a new land...