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Whether any real cheer is warranted remains to be seen. Meanwhile, the White House chose former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to head a new commission that will study ways to deploy the MX missile. Other members will include three former Secretaries of Defense and, reportedly, Alexander Haig, who quit as Reagan's Secretary of State only six months ago. The study will presumably lead the commission into a broad review of the composition and strategy of all U.S. nuclear forces, whether or not agreement can be reached with the Soviets on limiting them...
...financial arrangements of the board will hardly cheer the poor or the shrinking number of underpaid, overburdened lawyers who represent them. The Georgia branch of the LSC has lost 100 of its 300 staff members. Offices in some towns have been closed; others are served only by circuit-riding lawyers. Community Legal Services of Philadelphia has decided that in order to stay afloat, it must jettison eviction cases, small-claims actions, child support and custody cases, contested divorces and many spouse-abuse complaints. The office still represents many clients appealing disqualifications from the Social Security disability program and wins back...
...these last days before the Christmas holidays find you broke, frantically tearing around in search of gifts to bring home or, even worse, desperately scouring bulletin boards for cheap rides to Des Moines, cheer up. You're in exactly the same position as a century of Harvard predecessors. But enterprising Harvard Square tradesmen have always been willing to ease the students' plight with their cornucopia of wares--all in hope of augmenting their own Christmas bounties. Here's a sampling of vintage ads--the best of their years--from holiday seasons past...
...these bleak economic times, it seems good common sense--and seasonal cheer--to allocate such monies for a scholarship fund which is badly in need of replenishing. The students of Massachusetts ought to raise high their returnable beer bottles to Atkins and his colleagues who supported the amendment, and hope that Governor King will join in the toast...
...going for a concentrated barrage of holiday cheer, featuring a night of prime time this Saturday devoted entirely to seasonal specials. Beginning with two animated shows. "The Swiss Christmas Special," and the "Chipmunks' Christmas Special." NBC's evening-long ex travaganza also includes...