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Stubbornly optimistic, Amtrak President Roger Lewis insists that "we see a business with a future now." Last week his bosses in the Nixon Administration agreed. The Department of Transportation recommended that when Amtrak's original mandate expires July 1, Congress should give the corporation the go-ahead to keep operating its present network.* The department also called on Congress to increase Amtrak's $100 million in Government loan guarantees to $500 million and requested that Amtrak be given an "open-ended appropriation," in effect a blank check to finance operations. The department cited "notable gains" for Amtrak...
What is the YRB's mandate is to emphasize systemic change. Last spring, Saravelas gave the go-ahead to four staff members who were preparing original programs designed to meet that need: silk-screening, legal, and newsletter projects, as well as long-range plans for a bail fund project, a medical program, a youth union, and a guerilla theater group...
Harvard came back strong to tie the game and go ahead on goals by Bob Goodenow, Ted Thorndike and Bob McManama. All three scored with less than two minutes left in the period. McManama's go-ahead score came at 19:58 on a "thread the needle" pass from Larry Desmond...
...Eagles, however, exploded to score two goals in the space of a minute and nearly got the go-ahead goal, as they put the pressure on the Harvard skaters. McManama capitalized on Harvard's second man-advantage situation with an assist from Dave Hynes, to put the Crimson back in command. B.C. again put the pressure on and tied the game with less than three minutes in the period...
Three weeks ago, John Gordon, the manager of HSA's concession stand in the Union, was all ready to go ahead with plans to sell condoms and vaginal foams at his place of business. He had already been given the legal go-ahead from HSA's lawyer, Harold Rosenweld, who opined that the proposed under-the-counter sales were legally aboveboard. HSA President Arthur Segel had cleared the way by announcing that the aforementioned items would be sold at cut-rates with no profits for HSA. And all Gordon needed to begin his magnanimous project was the high sign from...