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...absence of 6'7" center Mark van Landenham, who is out with a broken ankle. The Huskies' workhorse is 6'2" All-American guard John Clark. Winless B.U. has probably faced the stiffest competition this season. The squad's southern road swing turned into a debacle as Mercer, Citadel, Rollins and Southern Florida successively lashed the Terriers...
...that it is run-efficiently-by an Englishwoman, Anne Willan-and it is the first full-scale school to offer lessons in English as well as French. Without mincing any mots, the well-financed academy has set out to challenge the haughty Cordon Bleu, the 80-year-old citadel of French culinary tradition that has become a synonym for distinguished cookery...
...California, the citadel of the automobile culture, the state's highway budget for 1976 was presented last week, and it turned out to contain the lowest outlay for new construction since the 1950s. Road-building crews are to lay only 77 miles of state freeways and expressways, down from an annual aver age of 280 miles over the past eight years. Gasoline taxes that fund the highways are off because of higher gas prices, lower speed limits and less thirsty cars. And inflation boosted highway construction costs in the state by a staggering 60% last year. California...
Visiting Eastern Europe recently, Savas was surprised to find more competition in some Communist cities than in that citadel of capitalism...
...first two weeks of court-ordered busing, at the beginning and end of each school day, Charlestown High School has looked like a besieged citadel. It is almost at the top of a hill, on a block facing the Bunker Hill Monument, which one boycotting student sarcastically predicted would be renamed "Martin Luther King Monument." Scores of policemen--the Tactical Patrol Force, U.S. Marshals, National Guard Helicopter pilots, MDC and city police, state troopers, and even an MDC sharpshooter--have all been on duty, guarding the area around the school to ensure the peaceful loading and unloading of school buses...