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...Baptist Church, it is only fitting that the fair should kick off with the annual Texas-Oklahoma game. This Southwestern tribal ritual more closely resembles a vigorous bloodletting in the Circus Maximus than a friendly athletic contest. Instead of musky wine from handwrought goblets, though, the spectators knock down rye whisky from leather-bound flasks while the hot-blooded young gladiators, as they say down home, whup ole Billy outa one another. Turns out, for the first time in five years, it is Oklahoma that does the whupping. By day's end Texas has lost its first-and second...
SYLVIA BACON, 40. As a Justice Department aide, she helped draft the District of Columbia's controversial no-knock crime bill. Miss Bacon was appointed to her first judgeship seven months ago, and now serves on the D.C. superior court. She is a graduate of Vassar and Harvard Law School. Associates say that she is independent and capable of defining a problem in "very precise terms." Despite her conservatism, she served under Ramsey Clark and helped draft legislation for court reform in the District of Columbia...
...succeed; the hope is, as A. Alvarez allows it, that the suicide succeeded far better than she planned. She turned on the gas at an hour titillatingly close to the time at which she knew the Australian babysitter was to arrive. She knew that the babysitter would knock at her door, get no response, that she would knock on the door of the apartment below and that the tenant below would come to her aid. What Sylvia did not count on was that the neighbor's bedroom was directly below her kitchen and that the fumes would descend into...
...Postponing a Raise. Congress would nonetheless be well advised to knock out some of the accelerated depreciation and give more tax relief to individuals, preferably by postponing part of an increase in Social Security taxes proposed to take effect Jan. 1. Congress is now considering a bill to boost the total paid by people earning $10,200 or more a year from $406 to $551, wiping out for many families all the personal tax breaks requested by Nixon. Postponing some of this increase, rather than legislating further permanent tax cuts, would serve a double purpose. It would put more spending...
...Last week we lost to Holy Cross in overtime, 4-3," said M.I.T. coach Bill Morrison. "We realize who we're playing. I won't say we're gonna knock the shit out of 'em, cause we're not. I guess you could say that we are ready," chuckled Morrison...