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Being outside has also helped the team's spirit. The stickmen had been practicing nights in Briggs Cage, where they had to contend with a pitcher's mound and burned out lights which Buildings and Grounds never got around to replacing...
...mildly, is not yet faced with the problems of efficiency in the extreme. But it does have to contend with choices among
Mediocre Results. The 8,000-word message, in preparation for almost a year, was designed at least in part to answer Administration critics who contend that Nixon puts economy ahead of education. The White House drew on the 1966 Coleman report, a Great Society-sponsored study conducted by educators and other experts. One of the Coleman theses was that quality education, as usually measured in terms of school buildings, libraries, laboratories and numbers of teachers, often bears little relationship to the school's effect on children. But, old school building or new, a far greater impact on classroom performance...
...same time, lawyers for the Panthers began a legal challenge to Murtagh's novel tactic for bringing order back to the courtroom. In a request to State Supreme Court Justice John J. Leahy for a writ of habeas corpus, they contend that Murtagh's action has the effect of holding the defendants in contempt without the safeguard of specified charges or an opportunity to rebut them in a formal procedure. Murtagh's demand for a written promise to behave, they added, violated their rights by asking them to admit prior criminal behavior...
...Russian proposal-reasonable as it may seem on the surface-has thoroughly outraged the largest and wealthiest Orthodox body in the U.S., the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, claiming 443 parishes. The Russians contend that they have a canonical right to establish an "autocephalous" (self-governing) church in America, on the basis of historical preeminence: Orthodox canon law, they say, gives rights over a missionary district to the first hierarchy that establishes itself in a new area-and the Russians have had a diocese in North America since 1840. The Greeks, who did not establish their American...