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...Still, Harris was included when current National Committee Chairman Larry O'Brien last week called together the other candidates to hammer out primary spending limitations. The party is still $9.3 million in debt from '68, and all the hopefuls are suffering from money troubles. There is also the danger of the candidates exhausting themselves campaigning and cutting one another up in public to Nixon's ultimate profit. Such harsh realities undoubtedly aided the group in reaching an agreement to limit TV and radio spending to 5? per 1968 registered voter (Democrat and Republican) in each...
...revolution's avowed purpose of creating no less than "a new Peruvian, one of dignity and responsibility" was a tall order. Peru was long overdue for a social overhaul. Only three years ago, giant foreign concerns and a few rich Peruvian families still had a hammer lock on the economy, controlling vast sugar estates that sometimes stretched for a quarter of a million acres, or running huge copper, zinc and silver mines where laborers worked for a little over...
...over $4,000,000; last week a Renoir, purchased for $16.80 a century ago, fetched $1,159,200 at a London auction. The list could be prolonged almost indefinitely, and will be: before the '70s are out, the first $10 million painting will probably have gone under the hammer. It does not take a very puritanical conscience to deduce that this involves a grotesque inversion of values, a crisis in the function that past art can play in present culture...
This afternoon's events will generally be confined to trials. However, finals will take place in the javelin, hammer and six-mile...
...Harvard's Richie Szaro, who came in second in the Heptagonals at Franklin Field two weeks ago, will be throwing the javelin. Ed Nosal will hurl the hammer and Marshall Jones will run the six-mile...