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...acknowledging the student positions on the various issues sweeping the campus, including those concerning University-held investments in South Africa, and their dividends such as the Charles Engelhard Library in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The current students will have graduated soon to be replaced by another crop committed to perhaps the opposite perspective in the current issues of debate. The Administration of President Bok however has responsibility for the long-run survival of the institution and the sensitive feelings of the University's older and more conservative alumni...
...offensive line averages 250, the defense 235. The Minutemen have Macktrucked their way to 675 yards on the ground in their opening two games. Halfback Cliff Pedrow and fullback Hank Sareault are both tough, but the cream of the crop has to be flanker/wingback Dennis Dent...
Like the Vietnam veterans, the people who live near the sprayed areas have begun to experience the ill-effects of the dioxin. Crop-dusters try to confine spraying to forested areas with sparse populations, but the herbicide wafts toward more populated areas. Studies conducted by the Forestry Service document the phenomenon of "spray drift": the herbicide spreads to outlying areas coating them in a fine mist of chemicals. The Service found that dioxin floats into streams, where it harms fish. The same study documented a loss of vegetation adversely affecting the fishfood supply...
What manner of man was this new world celebrity? The week brought forth the first crop of Luciani stories: the schoolboy in the foothills of the Dolomite Alps playing hookey to catch birds, the farm boy doing chores barefoot to save shoe leather for his poor family, the young seminary professor devouring books during his two sojourns in a tuberculosis sanitorium...
Farmers around Circle were discouraged by that, and many of them plowed their wheat under rather than pay to have it harvested. This year there is a big U.S. crop, but also Government supports and the hope of a heavy overseas sale. The price is $3 a bushel, not enough to turn a farmer's thoughts to a new Mercedes, but enough to turn a slight profit...