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Events of the past year seem to confirm the inevitability of these conflicts. Harvard had a number of runins with federal requirements, and the most dramatic one still continues. This dispute is over so-called "effort reports"--that is, a professor's obligation to account for his time if he is doing research under a federal grant. More and more agencies are demanding that he estimate how much time he devotes to his project; most professors believe this impossible and undesirable. They have, conformed for the present, but the fight continues to eliminate or modify the regulation...
...members of the legislature should make that abundantly clear to the governor by criticizing his education budget now. Perhaps Reagan's refusal to say anything more about tuition since the uproar will confirm for California voters what some realized in November: their new governor got elected by keeping one eye on the opinion polls and the other on filmed playbacks of his press conferences--and he is likely to continue operating that...
Madison Park residents said little while these proposals were being discussed in City Hall and at School Committee headquarters. The lack of commotion, especially since people were going to be relocated, seemed to confirm BRA findings that Madison Park was a neighborhood but not a community...
Before leaving the ranch, Johnson got around to announcing what everyone had long expected, but what he had steadfastly refused to confirm all year: that between $9 billion and $10 billion in additional funds will be needed to finance the Viet Nam war in fiscal 1967. That doubles the Viet Nam tab, raises the current defense budget to $68 billion and overall federal spending to $127 billion. It also means that the deficit for the fiscal year ending in June will total at least $10 billion...
Stupendous Collision. To University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper, one of the world's leading lunar experts, Orbiter's photograph seemed to confirm his theory that the 1,000-ft.-high mountains in the center of Copernicus were partially formed by volcanic activity. Scattered over their slopes, he says, are humps similar to the cinder cones found on major terrestrial volcanoes. The picture also clearly shows that the floor of the crater is remarkably flat. To Kuiper, this indicates that the subsurface was once in a fluid or plastic state, and that it solidified, causing the crater floor...