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GEORGE V. HIGGINS, the author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle, is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the State of Massachusetts. The novel draws on his experience with the professional hoodlums who parade through the Boston area courts. At eighteen they're in on breaking and entering, or driving a stolen vehicle. They wear blue jeans and Army jackets, they shrug at their public defenders, and they mumble on the witness stand. Almost any judge will give them a couple of years, suspended on parole. But a few years later they show up again on an armed robbery charge...
...Starr founded the Starr Book Shop forty years ago, in the store space that now houses Cahaly's. That makes his shop the oldest one of its kind in Cambridge. Eighteen years ago, he moved to his present location in the Lampoon castle, where he maintains friendly relations with his neighbors. "They buy humor books here," he says. "And they invite me to their parties. Yeah, I go," he adds...
McCurdy yesterday rated the Crimson a narrow favorite over Princeton, conceding the Tigers only five of eighteen events. However, he rated five other crucial events as toss ups, claiming only eight as Harvard wins...
...land of Egypt. "Egypt is a country without a leader," he says. "I am a leader without a country." Accordingly, he has bought and bullied his way into the Arabs' first solid military and political alliances since the breakup of Nasser's United Arab Republic in 1961. Eighteen months ago, he got Egypt and Syria to join in a "Federation of Arab Republics" with Libya. Later this year he is set to join Libya with Egypt in a full-scale political merger. Egypt's Anwar Sadat, whom Gaddafi detests, will be the President, and Cairo will...
There is inevitably less change among assistant, associate, and full professors, especially in an eighteen month period, because turnover is slow and relatively few women and minority persons have entered certain specialized fields, particularly in the sciences, where many appointments are made. Nevertheless, in October 1971 67 (4.4 per cent) minority persons and 64 (4.2 per cent) women held professorial positions. Today, 74 (4.8 per cent) minority persons and 88 (5.7 per cent) women occupy such positions...