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Gahan is also attempting to prove that Cronin's firing of all eight striking waitresses had nothing to do with the strike. If the firing did result from the strike, as the waitresses contend, the firing is illegal. Gahan refused to comment after court yesterday on Cronin's reasons for firing the waitresses...
...Olympic decathlon, there may be no more enervating enterprise in the U.S. than campaigning in the presidential primaries. Never before has the ordeal been more punishing than it is this year for the eleven major Democratic candidates, who have no fewer than 24 pre-convention primaries to contend with. It is enough to make strong men weep, and finally one did. The tears were all the more conspicuous because they were shed by the leading Democratic contender. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine...
...problem areas. First, the stage-one program of placing 120 freshmen in Leverett House is viewed as creating a severe class-imbalance for that house. Under this plan, no sophomore males would be admitted this year, and 100 upperclassmen currently in residence would have to move. Second, critics also contend that conversion of the Yard into houses would be an extremely expensive proposal (mainly due to masters' and tutors' salaries, as well as the construction of dining rooms, libraries and other house facilities required to really created "houses") which would not add any additional living space. Thus even if this...
...building--which the tenants contend may be partly owned by Harvard--has been the scene of several burglaries in the last few years. On January 25, a woman living on the third floor was stabbed in the throat and raped, and a number of other apartments in the building were broken into...
...Premier of Japan, they would sure be linked." Faced with close to a $3 billion-a-year trade imbalance with Japan, the U.S. is anxious to sell the Japanese some products that are now kept out by quotas-feeder cattle and oranges, for example. But the Japanese contend that they have already done the U.S. a favor by putting a voluntary limit on textile exports to America. No firm commitments were made during the meetings between Connally and the Japanese negotiators; trade talks will resume later this month...