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...Minnesota, Champion presently manages a budget of $250 million which covers five campuses, 51,000 students and 4000 full-time faculty members. But while he may be moving down in terms of numbers of students by coming to Harvard, Champion will inherit a budget of equal proportions-at nearly $200 million-and 1000 more faculty...
...Inheriting Problems. In addition to this bonanza, Delta will inherit some problems. It must assume a $40 million accrued debt from Northeast and continue to maintain the perennially profitless New England routes. "We can't do any better with the local service than Northeast did," Dolson admits. "Even a genius can't make money flying jets 100 miles at a time...
That leaves two major issues still unsolved. One is the role of British sterling. Among other things, the French fear that the Common Market would inherit the responsibility for sterling which, as a reserve currency, is subject to the stresses of the sort that have recently beset the dollar. As a result, the French want London to discourage foreign countries from holding sterling balances. The other issue is New Zealand, whose entire economy depends on exports of lamb, butter and other agricultural products to Britain. Last month New Zealand's Premier Sir Keith Holyoake presented his country...
Beginning in July, Vermont youths will be able at 18 to vote in all elections, buy any alcoholic beverage, marry without parental consent, sign legal contracts, incur debts (and be held accountable for them), inherit estates and be treated as adults by the courts. All these privileges were hitherto reserved for those who had reached the age of 21. The bill was introduced by Vermont's youngest legislator, 24-year-old Representative Kenneth Parker (who in the last election defeated a man 50 years older), and was signed into law by the nation's oldest Governor, Deane...
...Hoover, an invincible basketball team cloned from Lew Alcindor, or perhaps the colonization of the moon by astronauts cloned from a genetically sound specimen chosen by NASA officials. Using the same technique, a woman could even have a child cloned from one of her own cells. The child would inherit all its mother's characteristics including, of course...