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Frustration is leading some growers to adopt militant new tactics. About 170 farmers in Iowa agreed two weeks ago to join forces with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In this unusual arrangement, the Teamsters will lobby state and federal officials for a moratorium on farm foreclosures and will provide legal aid to fight bankruptcies; meanwhile, the farmers will help push for the repeal of Iowa's right-to-work law. In Washington, Iowa, more than 150 friends and supporters of Roger Escher, 38, took a different tack. They stood silent last month and refused to bid in the auctioning...
Harvard had already granted Bourbeau permission to play hockey this semester, and most expected the former Massachusetts Schoolboy Player of the Year to join the team in February...
Chalmers will not be able to play against Dartmouth Monday night at Bright, but he will join the team for games at Yale and Brown the following weekend...
...extraordinary newcomer will join that celestial company. The California Institute of Technology, working with the University of California, will build the world's biggest optical telescope on the volcano's crest; construction could begin as early as 1986. The mammoth instrument, made possible by a $70 million grant to Caltech by the W.M. Keck Foundation, will have an innovative mirror system nearly 400 in. in diameter, which is twice the width and has four times the light-gathering capacity of today's reigning optical telescope, the 200-in. Hale device at Mount Palomar, Calif. When astronomers begin using...
Regan has been impressing superiors for close to four decades. Son of a Boston railway employee, he attended the city's prestigious Cambridge Latin School and Harvard College. After dropping out of Harvard Law School to join the Marine Corps, he saw action in four South Pacific campaigns in World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He joined Merrill Lynch, then as now the nation's largest brokerage house, as a 27-year-old trainee in 1946; by 35 he had become the youngest partner in the firm's history. The fact that Regan's uncle...