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Last year's drain of prospective graduate students in Economics from Harvard to MIT appears to be diminishing, or may even have reversed itself, according to the number of this year's National Science Foundation (NSF) fellows who have listed Harvard as their first preference...
...five years ago when he realized that "Russian studies were in for a bad time. Money was drying up; resources and facilities were scattered. Many leaders in the field were dead. It was felt that if I didn't do something, nobody else would." So as not to drain foundation money from existing university centers* for Soviet studies, Kennan approached companies that do business with the Russians, including PepsiCo, Chase Manhattan, Bank of America and General Electric. They responded with enthusiasm-and generous grants...
...Horses and sign autographs. Strawberries is hip. Somebody at the store has made an altar of Black Ken dolls, melted wax, plastic horses, alligators, kangaroos. Dirt. Ashes. All images in her poems. The altar stands in an alcove lined with an arch of over 200 of her albums. Photographers drain the juice on their electronic strobes as people shyly wait with pens. One kid, who stole Patti's "Braves" jersey the other night has come to return...
...Eliot House pinball teams went head to head yesterday in the first round of a challenge match at Currier House. For the gamesters who would rather pursue silver balls than gold nuggets, the time had come to pit the forces of their souls against gravity and the hated "drain...
...varsity wrestlers, whose title hopes had gone down the drain against Columbia the day before, came back on Saturday to sweep aside the Big Red of Cornell, keeping alive their hopes for a break-even season...