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...dictated all I could remember. If I had been up to some skulduggery, why would I admit the [Hunt] call and put it into a memorandum?" Added Colson: "It's a self-serving memo, obviously. I said, 'Christ, I'm going to be made the culprit,' so I wrote down every contact I'd had with Hunt...
Pointing a finger at the culprit is virtually impossible. Many different ingredients constitute the mess: the 2.5 to 1 sex ratio arising out of Harvard's non-merger merger, the housing shake-up performed in March by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), a possible reversal of the recent trend toward leave taking, a small senior class and the inadequacy of the present plan for assigning freshmen to Houses. Any one of these reasons could have made the roof cave in this Spring...
...most serious culprit in House overcrowding, according to Bruce Collier, who programmed the computer which made House assignments, is the small size of the class graduating today. Collier predicts that the number of undergraduates entering the housing pool next Fall will be 140 students larger than this year, with half of that increase--caused by the second year of 2.5 to 1--taken up by the second half of the Continental. However the Houses will have to absorb the 70 additional students, in addition to the 50 or 60 undergraduates spots from Radcliffe. Although the result will be over-crowding...
...Interior Ministry alone had bought "several hundred" bugging devices since 1969, but their search concentrated primarily on private detectives. When one of them was found to have two microtransmitters in his office, the head of the Italian detectives association, Pier Davide Tavazzi, called a press conference to denounce the culprit for damaging the good name of the profession. Last week Tavazzi himself was implicated in a tapping case and was hauled off to Milan's San Vittore Prison...
Good Deal. The farmer does not consider himself the culprit but a scapegoat-and he resents it. If he gets one or two banner years, he reasons, he is expected to do penance for them. Says Harold Steele, an Illinois hog farmer and President of the Illinois Agricultural Association: "People forget that prices were so low two years ago that the farmer was taking a huge loss. Often he had to mortgage 75% of his equity to stay in business." But the farmer does not forget. Living with precarious weather and price cycles, he develops a certain resignation. He complains...