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...such social welfare appropriations as those providing eyeglasses for the elderly and cost of living increases for welfare recipients; and an austerity budget that restricted many vital and popular programs. The budget cuts were a major reason why such fervent Dukakis supporters as Sisitsky and State Representative Barney Frant '63 became disenchanted, often bitter critics of Dukakis...
...Haiti's Plateau Central, it was a day of both sadness and fun. The older folk, according to the Haitian custom, alternately wept & wailed, feasted, played cards. For the younger ones there were endless ghost stories and riddles. It was the day of 26-year-old Alina Souf-frant's funeral...
Harvard's coaches, the ones that are left, are going to continue helping out with the uniformed students' athletic programs, in addition to their peacetime tasks. Hal Ulen and Frant Vaughn, for example, have done all the swimming instruction so far, and expect to in the future. Henry Lamar has been working with the ASTU's sports program. And so on down the line. Ensign Adkins and his four Chief Specialists will work with the College coaching staff on the V-12ers physical training...
...York City, every municipal and most private hospitals were jammed with influenza patients, yet Dr. Samuel Frant, the city's chief epidemiologist, coolly announced: "The prevalence of influenza at present is very similar to that frequently experienced at this season of the year." Indianapolis factories and offices were crippled by workers' absences, but it was not felt that the disease necessitated municipal action. Boston was not officially exercised over "a slight gain" in respiratory diseases for the week, nor was Minneapolis alarmed about its "numerous colds and some grippe." "Nothing in the way of an influenza epidemic," cheerfully...
...Significance. A compact, well constructed novel, written with Mrs. Wharton's unfailing deftness and giving a faithful picture of War-time Paris, A Son at the Frant, can hardly fail to attract a considerable audience. And yet it seems a curiously lifeless book. The characters seem shadowy and unsubstantial; the exact, neat detail, lacking in any real significance; the tale, twice-told. To your reviewer, coming, as it does after Mr. BritUng, Sonia, Le Feu, Three Soldiers, One of Ours and Through the Wheat, A Son at the Front appears like an exhibition of perfect waxworks, meticulously constructed, displaying every...
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