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...throw off your chains. This weekend at the Science Center the University Film Study Center is projecting fifteen of the world's finest short animated films, selected in part from winners of international festivals. The styles range from New Yorker-cartoon-like line drawings to color swirls and slashes reminiscent of Kandinsky, from sequenced photographs of porcelain dolls to images like amoebas in a microscopic slide. Mostly, though, they transmit undiluted visual delight...
...Fifteen years of inadequate preventive maintenance have led to chronic break-downs of physical equipment in the Houses, William H. Bossert, master of Lowell House, said in a speech to house members last Friday...
...been with the Sox for 25 years, and like most pitching coaches, lectured for fifteen minutes on the virtues of "keeping the ball down." That's everything: Slack keeps charts of hard-hit balls, whether they're caught or not, and when he shows them to pitchers it is proven that for every one low ball, five above-belt pitches get just that--belted. The pitchers tend to respond by saying, "I know." "If I had ten pitchers standing in front of me now, I'd tell all of them the same thing--keep the ball...
...Instead, as a victim of Washington's inability to discern Divine intentions, the American taxpayer has to cough up nearly a billion dollars a year to keep the postal corporation afloat--still not enough to prevent it from accumulating a current debt of over $3 billion. In the last fifteen years, the price of mailing a first-class letter has risen over 400%. In the oil industry, that economic no-man's land where rapacious monopolists reign supreme, the price of a gallon of gas rose less than 70% during the same period. Though it increased its prices almost...
Half-way between Detroit and Pontiac it is a different story. Just off Woodward at Fifteen Mile Road in Bloomfield Hills--the home of those who have made it in the automobile and related industries--is the Cranbrook School. At Cranbrook a classroom may have no more than ten students in it. Most of the teachers could hold university positions. Cranbrook is the midwest's answer to Andover and Exeter. Here a platoon of gardeners work on the acres of forest and expenses of green lawn. Most of the entrances are patrolled by security guards. Dotting the landscape are small...