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Yale is now 0-1-1 along with Princeton, which did not face an Ivy foe last weekend. Penn, which also took on non-league competition, now stands winless in two tries against Brown and Cornell. The Quakers had ranked as pre-season threats to give Brown a battle...
...Transportation, the feeling is that even if the CAB authorizes a subsidy, Congress will not fund it because it is tired of being asked to bail out private companies in the manner of Perm Central, Lockheed and Grumman. Wisconsin's influential Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a longtime foe of subsidies to business, is adamant against any aid to Pan Am beyond possible increases in fares. He bristles at the thought of turning Pan Am into "the nation's largest welfare recipient...
...average fan, and most of you will be spectators for the majority of your time here, there is a strange attraction to the decrepit facilities that host Harvard's battles with the dreaded foe...
SOCIAL PROBLEMS. In Congress, Ford was a vigorous and persistent foe of the health, education and housing programs advocated by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He has railed against welfare as destructive of the work ethic and endorsed the Nixon Administration's later abandoned family assistance plan, which contained work incentives, as a way out of the welfare mess. Ford was initially leary of federal revenue sharing but later became an enthusiastic supporter; he saw it as a way to help reduce the role of federal agencies in state and local affairs. "We need a national government that...
...over and now Bradlee wanted simply to report events. When a Women's Wear Daily reporter penetrated Bradlee's office, the executive editor personally ejected her with the admonition: "This is not the place to be writing about." In Boston, Globe Editor Tom Winship, another longtime Nixon foe, impassively watched the speech with his newsroom staff, then remarked quietly: "He went out with dignity...