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...stated in 1964, "The Territory's mineral resources are being rapidly exploited by foreign companies. The two mining operations which are at present yielding the most fruitful returns will probably be worked out within 25 years. Thus the country runs the risk of finding itself in the not too distant future without the raw materials that now provide the main support for the money economy...
PRESIDENT BOK'S DECISION to appoint Masters for three and five-year terms is a welcome improvement. Too often Masterships, given for indefinite lengths of time, have been held by individuals so distant from students or so bored by their House that their presence has lost its intended impact...
...billion a year is not undertaken to make the U.S. self-sufficient in fuels -especially through liquefying or gasifying coal-the nation may well find itself either burning more polluting fuels (with higher sulfur content for example), or becoming heavily dependent on Middle Eastern oil in the not-distant future. Yet Nixon boosted the energy R. and D. budget by only 20% over the 1973 level of about $770 million. Furthermore, Treasury Secretary Shultz says that the Administration will spend the funds when it appears they can be effectively used and that it will not just "throw money" at problems...
...repackage Superman and sell it as camp, no one bought it. It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman flopped that year on Broadway, and it may have been because this poor hero had been too packaged already. But maybe the mentality just wasn't quite distant enough yet: the original Superman was a passion play of technological trash for people who had their fantasies in black-and-white. The perspective is probably more appropriate now. The corruption of the seventies needs to convince itself that it's at least delicious, and the sterile, abstract morality...
...rough week against UMass, 12-8, and Cornell, 18-8, the stickmen also were treated unsympathetically by New England sportswriters. Despite the ten's fine showing against UMass, trading goals for three quarters, the NE lacrosse poll rated the Minutemen second, behind Brown, and the Crimson a distant seventh...