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...Edward J. King and his legislative bandwagon are rolling headlong after everyone under age 21 who drinks. King is determined to fulfill as soon as possible his campaign promise to raise the drinking age back...
...basement material, shocked Harvard at Baker Rink last February 6-3 for their first triumph over the Crimson since LBJ's Great Society. You may want to forget that the icemen had lost 4-3 at Penn the evening before and then dropped their next four games to fall headlong out of the ECAC top eight...
Windham's fall is scarcely an isolated case. For America's 1,500 private colleges, the 1970s have proved as much a time of retrenchment in higher education as the 1960s were a period of headlong expansion. Ten colleges shut their doors in 1978, bringing the total of closings for the decade to 129, more than double the number of new colleges that have opened. The campus kill ratio seems sure to soar in the years ahead. A Carnegie study predicts that as many as 300 institutions will vanish through the 1980s. Some educators expect an even greater...
...perched headlong on the edge of boredom
...Holzman Pfeiffer's projects is inherently slangy and decorative. If one buys a sculpture to perk up a building, it argues, one will probably get something made of brightly painted pipes, drums and I-beams. So why not forget sculpture and paint the ducts one has? "We've plunged headlong into the decorative arts," says the firm's head, Hugh Hardy. "Craftsmanship is busting out all over. It's clearly a reaction to the asceticism of the Modern movement...