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...That one is super-tough Craign Beling, the Crimson's leading tackler last year. But there are two linebacker positions to be filled, and only sophomore Bob Woolway has emerged out of the pack as a solid contender. One injury here and the season goes kerplunk, right down the drain...
...probably would sell for about that much. Though rentals came slowly at first because of an oversupply of office space in the city, they picked up with the recovery following the 1973-75 recession, and the building is now 90% occupied. The Trade Center still remains a drain on the Port Authority, since much of its space was rented at bargain rates and as a result the W.T.C.'s income will not cover its costs for some time. Yet a sale now is unlikely, if only because the Port Authority years ago forcefully proclaimed its need to build...
...murder case to make the book a success (Farber had turned down a movie offer because it seemed premised on a guilty verdict). Farber "has it in his power, perhaps," said Federal Judge Frederick Lacey, to get the doctor acquitted; yet if he does, "the book goes down the drain. . . This is a sorry spectacle of a reporter who purported to stand on his reporter's privilege when in fact he was standing on an altar of greed...
...situation from the Vietnamese point of view is an increasingly claustrophobic one. Its war with Cambodia shows every sign of being a long-run affair and is a constant drain on national energies. On the other hand, the nature of the brutal Cambodian regime since 1975 is such that even Senator George McGovern?who campaigned for the presidency as a passionate foe of U.S. Viet Nam policy?suggested last week that armed international intervention might be necessary...
Even in an age that has witnessed everything from the harnessing of the atom to flights across the solar system, the thought of matter going down a kind of cosmic drain stretches the mind. It is totally at odds with common sense and, a cynic might say, smacks slightly of selfdelusion, if not madness. After all, the frightful Heffalump turned out to be only Pooh with his head stuck in a jar of honey...