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Gregory Wilson, a first-year student and spokesman for the Committee of Concerned Students, said the CCS recently obtained the signatures of 648 law students--40 per cent of enrollment--on a petition that called the current Law Review selection policy "anachronistic and counterproductive." A flyer accompanying the petition said that the policy aggravates the problem of competitiveness in the first year...
...rush hour. Phantoms, Intruders, Corsair II light attack bombers, as well as ugly-goose Hummers with their absurd-looking radar dishes, vaulted off the catapults with a roar and a swoop, 15 seconds apart. Within minutes, other planes were simultaneously coming in for "recovery," the "controlled crashes," as one flyer put it, that pass for carrier landings...
Jimmy Breslin shows the bias of a clubhouse politician who understands the fast fix and the low squeeze; still he has nothing but disdain for any high flyer who thinks he can corrupt and deceive a whole nation. Last summer Breslin had the productive and pleasant idea of guzzling and gabbing regularly with a savvy fellow Irishman: Democratic House Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill (TIME cover, Feb. 4, 1974). It is Breslin's theory that those Washington politicians who create around them the "illusion of power" (like "beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished...
Waldo Pepper is a young man who spends his brief life one step behind history, hurrying to catch up and never quite making it. The greatest natural flyer his World War I squadron leader ever saw, Waldo nevertheless came too late for the greatest days of aerial combat, particularly the chance to duel the German ace of aces, Ernst Kessler. Barnstorming in an aerial circus during the mid-'20s, he senses that the tide has once more turned against him. The aviation establishment is now interested in proving to the public that flying is a safe and reliable means...
Unquestionably, muscle has won games for the Flyers. Opposition players often give Dave Schultz, who has more strength than skill, a wide berth wherever he skates. More often than not, it is a Flyer who comes out of a corner melee with the puck. But do the Flyers dish out cheap shots and unnecessary brutality? In the final playoff game against the New York Rangers last spring, the Flyers helped themselves to victory when Schultz sent Ranger Defenseman Dale Rolfe to the dressing room with two gashes in the forehead. Toward the end of a recent road game against...