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...vendor was doing good business hawking T shirts with the inscription I LOST MY HEAD AT THE YALE PEABODY MUSEUM; and large crowds gathered outside as if waiting to see a popular sports event. What they were about to witness, though, was a drastic head transplant involving some 150 million-year-old bones. More than a century after the fossilized skeleton of a 65-ft.-long Brontosaurus was discovered, the Yale museum was replacing the skull of its prize exhibit, long a model for dinosaur displays the world over. Bronto, it appears, had been topped all these years with...
Should the Senate defeat him, Reagan could by law make the sale on his own authority, a move that would surely anger even supporters in Congress. The President is clearly eager to avoid that drastic contingency. He is scheduled to continue working all his suasive skills on undecided Senators right through the hours of the floor debate...
...country's last hope for peaceful accommodation. High Polish officials concede that the alternative could be a declaration of martial law. This would involve imposing military control over key sectors of the economy, local administration and law enforcement. But most authorities still hoped to avoid that drastic step, since it carried with it the danger of violent civil strife and Warsaw Pact intervention. Referring to the bloody suppression of the 1970 Baltic riots, in which several hundred workers were killed, Gdansk Party Leader Tadeusz Fiszbach told TIME: "I don't want to imagine the consequences of such...
...rent board unanimously decided Wednesday night to take Harvard to Third District Court early next week in order to obtain documents that the Craigie Arms tenants association says are necessary to fight the University's plans to evict them to make way for drastic renovations within the building...
...More drastic still is the imminent dismantling of Project Galileo, a $500 million enterprise that would place an unmanned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter and drop a probe directly into the giant planet's atmosphere. More than $200 million has already been spent, including several million dollars by the West Germans...