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...than he feels. With grouchy reluctance he agrees with his aide that the ransom should be paid with money borrowed from the Federal Reserve Bank. With the city running painfully short of time, the aide adds that it is inopportune for the mayor "to spend an hour trying to knock down the interest rate." The mayor is also urged to go to the scene of the crime and appeal for the safety of the hostages. "Why?" asks the wincing mayor, who points out that the crowd will probably boo him and the hijackers may shoot him. "They have no reason...
...varsity squad failed to make the semifinals in a two-day meet at the Coast Guard Academy. In the final preliminary round, Brown defeated Harvard to knock the Crimson out of a third-place tie with Tufts and MIT, both final round victors...
Szulc, who describes himself as a "Kennedy liberal," was one of the first important journalists to knock Kissinger, and in recent months he has scorched the Secretary's negotiating tactics in Foreign Policy, deplored his obfuscation of aspects of the SALT talks in the Columbia Journalism Review, and accused him of everything from sabotaging democracy in Chile to possessing "a thirst for applause and adulation that can brook no questioning or criticism" in New York magazine...
...Crimson needs an exceptional team effort to knock off the fleet Big Red. McCurdy thinks it is possible. "Our runners are very bullish," he said. "And besides we don't want Cornell to snap our winning streak...
...ordeal of the political wife, and the somewhat lesser strains borne by the political husband (see box page 19), is more than a matter of mere gossip, more than a personal problem. It was important enough to help knock the leading Democratic contender out of the 1976 presidential race. Under the steady glare of television, the personality and character of the political wife is more crucial than ever, but the treatment she receives has not caught up with her importance. Torn between the role she feels she ought to fill and the part that is handed her, she understandably grows...