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...Fenn '44, director of the library, asked GSA officials in Washington whether the library could make in-lieu-of-tax payments to Cambridge. The provisional answer: Not without a special congressional...
...prepare "ethnic minority college students who are interested in medicine and dentistry as careers and are disadvantaged in their pursuit of these careers." The 150-odd students in the program each year are all on full scholarship, getting free room, board and tuition and a $500 stipend in lieu of the money they would otherwise be earning in summer jobs. Most of the program's graduates end up in med school...
...Sirica urged the Government's prosecutors to put certain Nixon officials "under oath in the grand jury room." At least one, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, had been permitted by the prosecution to submit a sworn statement to the grand jury in lieu of testifying. "I am still not satisfied that all of the pertinent facts have been produced before an American jury," Sirica declared. He reminded the prosecutors of a list of persons he wanted them to question again...
...Radcliffe Institute and the immediate family are accepting contributions in lieu of flowers. The proceeds will finance future Radcliffe fellows...
Their unlicensed "ears," or antennas, waggle from their cabs, picking up signals about 15 miles away. In lieu of call numbers, truckers prefer more personal "handles." These nicknames rip through the air waves, sounding like the cast of Looney Tunes; Woodpecker tears by hi the night with his co-driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel...