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Cliff Stevenson's Brown squad, 7-3-1 overall and 4-1 in the Ivy League, depends on two players up front for their scoring. Harvard goalie Steve Kidder and Brian Fearnett and the fullbacks will have to contend with Bruin tri-captain Bill Frost and Ferdinand Treusacher, a second team All-Ivy choice last year...
...second half, however, Harvard not only had to contend with the wind and increased Princeton pressure, but also with injuries, which started taking their toll...
...never carried simultaneously on all networks. Instead, opponents of presidential policies usually are squirreled away in film clips on news shows or sternly interrogated by reporters on Sunday interview programs. The FCC has consistently ruled that "fairness" is achieved when television merely gives exposure to opposition viewpoints; the authors contend that the networks must do more. They must give spokesmen opposed to the President comparable time and an equal chance at a nationwide audience...
Like other pharmaceutical manufacturers, Roche executives contend that the price of widely used drugs must be set high in order to subsidize the heavy development costs of new drugs-some of which can never be profitable because they are sold only in small quantities to treat rare diseases. Says Roche Chairman Adolf W. Jann: "There are just a handful of drugs priced at the level we need to recover the extremely high research costs of all drugs...
Independents appear to be split on this issue. Some, like Donald A. Fantini, contend that the city manager effectively serves as the civilian head of the police department and that the creation of the new post would only add another layer of bureaucracy...