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...fellowships allotted to the Graduate School declined from 51,446 to 24,808, and foundations phased out some graduate scholarship programs. This left the University and its graduate students with two major problems: The first and most immediate, a loss of direct funds to graduate students; the second, a grimmer job picture for Ph.Ds in the academic and corporate world resulting from these cutbacks...
...financial picture might look grimmer than the University's current response to it, but for the time being no drastic action is being taken. Even such luxuries as Arnold's Cornmeal and Molasses Bread will remain in the Houses, although various items will slip quietly in and out of the menus as their prices and availability vary...
...nation that has traditionally placed high trust in its law-enforcement agencies, one of the grimmer sides of the Watergate scandal was the success displayed by White House officials in manipulating the U.S. Justice Department in its investigation of the affair...
Though the Watergate revelations grow grimmer each week, nightclub audiences these days must be getting the impression that the debacle is the world's funniest subject. Comics across the country are milking Watergate for every plausible or implausible laugh that it is worth. At least a dozen records and albums featuring Watergate humor have already been released, and countless funnymen have built acts around the scandal...
Behind the official explanations, however, grimmer rumors were circulating. Elysée officials blamed his puffiness on the cortisone he is said to be taking to control rheumatism. But there was considerable speculation that his flabbiness and frailty were really due to radioactive cobalt treatments for a disease thought to be cancer of the bone marrow. Lending some credence to this rumor is the fact that one of his physicians, Professor Jean Bernard, is a leading leukemia specialist...