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Pressure for fuller campaign-finance disclosures has been building for years, prompted by ever fresh scandals and the ever-rising cost of the campaigns themselves. Now the rush of Watergate has broken a veritable log jam of pending state legislation, and new, stiffer legislation has been knocked hastily together...
...working more than twelve hours a day even with overtime) that prevent the most efficient use of cars. A consortium of railroaders, union leaders, elevator operators and farm economists who met at the Grain Movement '73 Conference in Chicago last week placed most of the blame for the jam on the Federal Government for overloading the rails with the Russian grain. They think new laws are needed to modernize and better coordinate the interlocking parts of the transportation system. But the remedies, even if adopted, will come far too late to unsnarl the present...
...RBIs on a pair of singles as Dartmouth came up with two runs in the second and single runs in the fifth and seventh innings. The Big Green threatened on several occasions, but good defensive plays by LaCivita and Stoeckel and Weissant pitching out of a bases-loaded jam in the third kept Dartmouth in check...
...search of an answer. John the Baptist pulls a flower bedecked cart over the Brooklyn Bridge one morning. He appears to the city's hungry souls in need of salvation. Their troubles are varied: one has spilled coffee on her waitress's uniform. Another is stuck in a traffic jam and a third is unfairly forced to wait in line to use a Xerox machine. He summons them to the Central Park fountain where, in the midst of absolution, Christ appears. "I wanna get washed up," says one disciple with hope in his eyes. "We'd do well...
...Heian and friends would be jamming/dancing to funky R&B and jazz. At Quincy House on the 21st. Heian is the best University-connected band playing, and may well be the best band, big or otherwise, on this side of the River Charles. You shouldn't miss this, because jamming is almost purely improvisational. Musicians always find their best licks in the open atmosphere of a jam. And these people are damn sure musicians...