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...AMPI is the largest U.S. dairy cooperative and one of the nation's most munificent backers of politicians. According to evidence presented to Watergate investigators, AMPI and two other dairy cooperatives contributed between $537,000 and $737,000 to President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign in hopes of gaming higher federal milk-price supports...
...North Shore fog. On the other hand, I was sure The Towering Inferno was going to be a disaster film in more ways than one. After all the genre included such winners as Tora! Tora! Tora! (which destroyed what was, when assembled for the film, the world's 14th largest airforce, and nearly drove its producers, Twentieth Century Fox, into bankruptcy) and the Poseidon Adventure, whose unexpected, (and undeserved) success spawned the current crop of wipe-'em-off-the-ceiling films...
Died. Richard H. Rich, 73, former president of one of the South's largest department-store chains; following heart surgery; in Houston. Grandson of the founder of Rich's department store in Atlanta, Rich became its president in 1949, expanded to 21 Rich and Richway Stores in three states. He was responsible for such innovations as cash refunds on virtually any goods returned to Rich's-even years after its purchase...
Coach John Baker looks to Yale and Wisconsin as Radcliffe's strongest challenge in the regatta. "Wisconsin is the largest crew in terms of size and height I doubt they would spend all that money to send them here unless they had something, but we can't be sure about them because they don't race standard courses. Yale does have a better record than we do in terms of margins...
...course showing that, when average American family income was $8,000 a year, average Harvard income was $17,000, and average $DS income was $23,000. Virtually all the students arrested in University Hall were WSA members, and of these" approximately 50 per cent attended prep school, with the largest representation from the most exclusive ones like St. Paul's," Mr. Garin's calculated reply is that "Lipset presents no overwhelming evidence that bluebloods made up any more than 50 per cent of the 'militants.' "But why such a high proportion from an elite whose interests were supposedly challenged...