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...Yeah--back to the womb," comes the answer from up the crawlway. But it's not that at all: it's damp and cold down here, with a million tons of rock balanced over your head. In the long squeeze coming through the Gunbarrel, even an experienced caver sometimes feels a twitch of claustrophobia. Novices may have to be dragged up with a rope...
...Harvard Band will make a last effort to entice spring to Cambridge and ease the shock of finals at 3 p.m. Sunday on the steps of Memorial Church. It will be your last chance this semester to sit against blossoming trees in damp grass amid a fleet of baby carriages and just listen to music. You can meet all the pallid friends you haven't seen since October...
...fireworks display of Timothy Mayer's Good Woman of Setzuan isn't quite the conflagration we'd been banking on. Some of the powder is damp, and some poorly packed. But when everything goes off on time, as it fortunately does in most of the play's crucial scenes, the pyrotechnics are well worth watching...
Moreover, with increased defense spending for Viet Nam, virtually full employment and unprecedented production levels, inflationary pressures seemed certain to become more, not less, severe. Economists of all stripes, from classical conservatives to New Economics liberals, urged the President to damp down the boom, whether by raising income taxes, suspending industry's 7% investment credit, or cutting Government expenditures...
...practicable, the Romney-Laird idea needs the advance blessing of all major candidates for the presidential nomination. They would consequently be committed to the useful notion that the party is bigger than the man, which in itself could help damp down some of the G.O.P.'s intraparty differences. More important for the party's immediate prospects, Romney has already told Laird he would make that commitment. Though condemned by many party regulars as a loner and an opportunist who has used the G.O.P. but has no true allegiance to it, Romney has thus indicated his willingness to contend...