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...with other oarsmen were the essential factors which made crew worthwhile. The feeling of a boat working together and swinging along swiftly is not matched by many other sensations. After a race, the teammates in a boat are a close-knit unit, because they share the emotional and physical drain that has been spent in the race...
...fraudulent or erroneous tax returns. Even with computerized checking, it is not too difficult for a taxpayer to get away with such dodges as claiming a couple of phantom dependents because the iRS's limited staff cannot run down every suspected cheat. One unofficial estimate puts the drain on revenue last year at $30 billion or more, about 15% of total collections. The problem has grown especially acute since 1969, when a change in tax laws so complicated the job of making out returns that many people gave up trying to do it alone. Last year more than half...
...impasse also dims the scheduled lines' hopes of slowing or stopping a drain of passengers to the cut-rate charter flights offered by the nonscheduled carriers. Last week one such line was advertising two-to-four-week round-trip fares between New York and London for as little as $179 in peak season. The scheduled lines had hoped that their new advance-fare service would enable them to come closer to meeting those prices, while also allowing them to plan operations so that they could cut costs by flying fully loaded planes. But weeks of effort...
...RELATIONS WITH BANGLADESH: "We are determined to recognize them provided there is machinery whereby we get our prisoners of war back. I released Sheik Mujibur Rahman hoping something like that would happen, but it went down the drain. We released the nightingale from the cage and nothing happened. Once bitten, twice shy. I believe, however, that the stalemate will be broken after the elections [in Bangladesh next month] and the framing of a new constitution in Pakistan. But first there must be machinery for the return of our P.O.W.s. There must be no war crimes trials, no persecution of accused...
Harvard's chances for the Ivy League basketball crown went down the drain Saturday night when it was upset by an inspired Brown quintet...