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...same system, future classes may see some revisions in the process of choosing and being assigned to the upperclass houses. Suggestions range from making the lottery totally random to allowing freshmen to know what houses still have room for them when they make their choices. But as Elaine C. Crespo '89 said upon hearing that her rooming group would be one of the last hundred out of the 529 to choose a house: "It won't make the Quad any closer...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Playing MegaHouses | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...period has been calm in comparison with that in oil-rich Angola (see following story). Portuguese officials have worked well with Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), the black liberation movement that led the ten-year fight against colonial rule, in the transition government. Explains Rear Admiral Vitor Crespo, the Portuguese High Commissioner: "We are both-Frelimo and Portugal -victims of the colonial and capitalist systems. We are now on the same side of the barricades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOZAMBIQUE: Countdown to Independence | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...beef cattle, and a comparable increase in milk production-for a cow that is being bled by vampires may yield only 20 quarts of milk a day as against a normal 30. There is no danger of the vampire's becoming extinct, says Mexican Biologist Raul Flores Crespo. "We can reduce the population, but we cannot totally destroy it. The vampire can return to the jungle and live as it did before the coming of the Spanish." That is, by sucking on wild animals but not on horses and cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Last Licks | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...cracking. In Havana 30 new British medium tanks and cases of Italian machine guns were unloaded and hustled off to Camp Columbia. From time to time there were tales of dissatisfaction and defection among both high-and low-ranking Cuban army officers. One young air force pilot, Jose Crespo, flew his B-26 to exile in Miami last week, saying that he could not obey orders to "bomb cities and kill innocent women and children." But there were other pilots, willing to use bombs. So long as the big army garrisons remain loyal, the Batista regime still stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: A New & Horrible Phase | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

October 26, 1936: Santiago Igleslas, Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner, shot and wounded by Domingo Crespo, Nationalist party member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nationalist Party's Record of Violence | 3/6/1954 | See Source »

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