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...proposals have hurt Rizzo most among members of his own working-class constituency, who stand to bear the heaviest tax burden. The mayor has survived earlier furors-including those raised by journalistic investigations into spending for improvements on his house and his use of city police to hector political opponents. But this one may well frustrate his long-held ambition to become Governor of Pennsylvania...
...Chuck Hector from Princeton completed his sweep of the breaststroke events as he won the 200 breast in an amazing time of 2:05, less than two seconds away from the best time swum by an American collegian this year...
...rest of the meet as the Crimson medley relay team beat a Princeton quartet that ranks among the best in the East. Backstrokers Duncan Pyle and Bruce Kone fought almost evenly over their 110-yard segment, but breaststroker Ted Fullerton began to edge away from Tiger Charles Hector...
...President of the country, William Gopallawa, and the Minister of Agriculture, Hector Kobbekadura, are both relatives by marriage (see chart). Then there are her brothers: Mackie, her private secretary; Barnes, a Supreme Court judge; Sevali, director of the Export Promotion Secretariat; and Clifford, chairman of the State Plantation Corporation. Last month Mrs. Bandaranaike fired her Finance Minister, N.M. Perera, the grand old man of the Trotskyite Sri Lanka Equality Party. She replaced him with another member of the clan, Felix Bandaranaike. Explains one observer: "She takes the position, 'What's wrong with giving my brother...
...kidneys produce the form of vitamin D necessary for the normal bone-building process, many people with kidney disease, and especially those on dialysis treatments, suffer from serious and progressive bone deterioration and may become crippled. Now help may be on the way. A team headed by Dr. Hector DeLuca of the University of Wisconsin has developed a form of vitamin D that enables the body to assimilate calcium from food and deposit it in the bones. They have tested it on about 50 patients so far. DeLuca is confident that the synthetic vitamin will prove invaluable to some...