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Carter has said he will veto the tax credit in favor of the College Opportunity Act, which expands existing Federal aid programs. The plan, similar to one Carter presented to Congress last fall, increases from $16,000 to $25,000 the maximum family income level for which the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) would be available, and boosts the maximum grant at each income level. The plan also adds more funds to the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG), which is distributed to students by individual colleges, and to the College Work Study Program, which provides federally-subsidized jobs for college...
Brown's football career continued at its, semi-comical level for one more week("I ran out the clock against Columbia with 18 seconds left."), before Davenport's serious neck injury in the opening game against the Lions thrust Brown into the ambiguous spotlight of Harvard foot ball...
Clive will teach two middle-level courses on British history this year, filling in a two-century gap in the History Department's presentation of English history. In addition, he will apply some of his leave research to the preparation of a General Education course, to be called Social Sciences 105, "Classics of Historical Writing: 18th Century to the Present," which is scheduled to begin next fall...
...fact, a happy denouement still remains to be written. For a real breakthrough in relations to take place, the U.S. must lift its trade embargo against Viet Nam and allow at least a modest level of aid to flow there. There is no great rush on the part of the U.S. Government to proceed with either aid or trade. Says one State Department official: "We need to know clearly and precisely just what the Vietnamese really want, and then take a long look at the situation...
...Some of this noise came from so-called radio galaxies that were all but invisible in the mirrors and lenses of ordinary optical telescopes. Other signals came from the distant and powerful quasars. At Bell Telephone Labs, scientists working on a new satellite communications system even "heard" a low-level microwave hiss that may be lingering radiation of the Big Bang...