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...recent rule changes in college athletics, the most significant being the eligibility of freshman for varsity-level sports, have virtually destroyed the practicality of a freshman team. As a result, less-gifted athletes have been shunted off into dead-end underfunded, and unfortunately, uncompetitive J.V. programs...
...program to a demand for a bombing halt in Vietnam if they were to have any effect. The bombing was a stopped, but the war goes on. Now we hear that the demand for immediate withdrawal has become permissible, but to argue for the Vietnamese revolution is a political dead-end. The anti-war movement has never been well served by this sort of pessimism; it would not be well served...
...hour's drive north of Damascus into the russet foothills of the Anti-Lebanon range, the road curves past an elegant stand of cypress trees. Suddenly the village cascades into view. The flat-roofed houses of mud and stone climb up the walls of a dead-end canyon of brown rock. Nestled in a crevice is the dome of a small convent, and high above, on the crest of the ravine, looms the Byzantine cupola of a monastery that, according to its lone priest, is 1,700 years old. Below is a patchwork of tiny fields where villagers grow...
...strongly in 1968. But many companies cut hiring of trainees during the 1970 recession and have not increased it in the present economic upsurge. A study by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee staff charged that a few JOBS employers used federal money to hire uneducated, foreign-born hopefuls for dead-end jobs-although the companies were supposed to train them for jobs with upward mobility...
...peace talks had reached a dead-end impasse. The original agreements, in effect, were being torn up, and negotiations had to begin anew. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu was about to blow up any agreement he did not like anyway. So went the ominous reports last week as another lull in the battle for peace inspired nervous speculation. In fact, the situation was not at all that sour. There were sound reasons for cautious optimism as the secret talks were to resume this week and Henry Kissinger resumed his commuting to Paris. In tribute...