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...fight the pests, Governor J. James Exon declared Nebraska a disaster area and made $500,000 in state funds available for spraying. The Colorado legislature, called into special session last week by Governor Richard D. Lamm, voted $2 million for emergency treatment of fields...
Presley wanted to meet FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who loathed long-haired types. "Presley stated," the memo went on, "that his long hair and unusual apparel were merely tools of his trade and afforded him access to and rapport with many people." Jones wrote to his superiors, however, that "Presley's sincerity and good intentions notwithstanding, he is certainly not the type of individual whom the director would wish to meet." Hoover never did agree to see Presley. Instead, he wrote the singer a letter saying that he would "keep in mind your offer to be of assistance...
...notice has been served on Rorvik and Lippincott-and, indirectly, on other authors and publishers-that it may well be costly to print as fact books that are fictitious or, even worse, hoaxes. Charging that Rorvik and Lippincott have done just that, Oxford University Geneticist J. Derek Bromhall last week filed a $7 million libel suit against them. Bromhall, a respected scientist, notes that he would not have brought suit had Image been published as fiction. But as nonfiction, he says, the book has "defamed" him by quoting from his research "so as to create the impression that Bromhall...
Pihl attributed the high chemistry course enrollments to "a hell of a lot of pre-meds. "However, he quoted Robert J. Ginn, Director of Off-Campus Services and Off-Campus Learning, as saying that the number of declared pre-meds at Harvard is "significantly dipping...
After city officials received the application, Building Department officials reviewed it and drafted a reply to the University--to be sent out this morning--indicating that there is "no reason to nullify the application," William J. Fagan, a Cambridge City official, said yesterday. The worst that could happen would be a delay, "but not a rejection of the University's plans," Fagan added...