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...settle on the step-by-step changes that draw on both liberal and conservative perceptions. These changes promise not to cure but to help. They constitute a pragmatic program that Americans should support, not merely because of their despair over the present situation but because making justice faster and firmer will also make it fairer...
...largest attendance for a club function in as long as most can remember. But while looking on Bok as a local boy made good may be comforting, it probably has little to do with the Harvard-Philadelphia relationship. As one long-time resident with what may be a firmer grasp of harsh realities recalls. "You've got to be kidding if you think Bok is one of Philadelphia's sons. They packed him off to boarding school before he even knew where Philadelphia was."CrimsonMary B. RidgeE. BRADLEY RICHARDSON '53, associate director of Harvard Admissions...
Surgical Revolution. Doctors have been experimenting since the 1950s with techniques to rebuild amputated breasts with grafts of fatty tissues and implants. Their initial efforts were often unsuccessful. The earlier implants, which consisted of chemically inert plastics, were of a firmer consistency than normal breast tissue and were aesthetic failures; the reconstructed breast was often no more than a hard mound that was usually noticeably smaller than the remaining breast. The plastic, in fact, often shrank and became lumpy after implantation...
...will the Democratic leaders effectively move to use their new power? The burden falls most heavily on House Speaker Carl Albert, who got off to a shaky start in his first term as leader, steadied somewhat in his second and will need to provide firmer guidance in his third. At the same time, the most influential committee, tax-writing Ways and Means, remains under the chairmanship of Wilbur Mills. Although he survived his celebrated blowup with the "Argentine Firecracker" by comfortably winning reelection, Mills' grip on his committee has been seriously slipping. There is talk within the Democratic caucus...
...Sliver, one of those present when the judge made his extraordinary request, was especially contrite: "I am sorry I made the agreement. I was ashamed of myself the minute after I walked out of the judge's chambers." Record Publisher J.D. Scoggins blamed himself for not taking a firmer stand. "It's a terribly dangerous precedent," he said...