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Other national Selective Service officials estimate that about 400,000 students will lose their deferments this summer. Of these, only those with lottery numbers below the present cutoff number, 126, can be drafted. Since about half of the men tested usually fail their physical examinations, there will still be between 60,000 and 70,000 former students who may be still draft--able when the old draft law lapses...
...electricity in inhabited slum houses whose owners had refused to foot the bill. He relied in part on a D.C. statute permitting the mayor to provide for utilities and impose a lien on such property. "Where hundreds of residents already living a marginal existence in substandard housing face a cutoff of gas, water and electricity," he wrote, "the municipality has a duty to exercise its inherent power...
Harvard was settled in fifth place-the cutoff point for the NCAA's-before the University of Vermont out-pointed the Crimson in the jumping on Saturday afternoon and moved past them in the team standings...
...money. Reagan is a conservative, budget-minded administrator confronted by a geometric rise in costs for a program that is in part a philosophical anathema to him. For months he fought to dispense smaller checks than those mandated under federal rules. HEW came within a day of announcing a cutoff of $684 million in aid to California, most of it destined for children and their unemployed mothers. Only last-minute negotiations averted the stop order. In New York, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, just re-elected to his fourth term, is preparing to ask higher taxes to meet the deficit created...
...prevent a recurrence of Apollo 13's troubles, NASA has drastically altered the design of Apollo's oxygen tanks, incorporating such safety features as stainless-steel-sheathed electrical wiring, heat regulators controlled by the astronauts, and external cutoff switches. In addition, NASA has added a third oxygen tank, a long-lived storage battery and extra water supplies as reserves for the command ship. Even Mission Control will profit from the $15 million safety overhaul. If any of Apollo 14's critical systems go awry, as did the defective oxygen tank in Apollo 13, loud beeping alarms will...