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...late 1968 President-elect Richard Nixon phoned Nathan Pusey, then Harvard's president, to request a leave for Professor Kissinger. Pusey said all right, but the maximum for leaves was two years. Replied Nixon: "I was hoping you could make it longer. We will not be taking so many [from Harvard] this time...
Released after more than two hours, he later entered a hospital suffering what friends called "a nervous breakdown." Apparently unmoved, the police filed charges that could bring him a maximum of $595,000 in fines or two years in jail...
...Amendment's free speech and freedom of association provisions. But, on the ground that they were "substantial" restraints of First Amendment rights, the court eliminated the ceilings on campaign spending. During the general election, for instance, a presidential candidate was allowed by the 1974 law to spend a maximum of $20 million. In removing such ceilings, the court noted that "virtually every means of communicating ideas in today's mass society requires the expenditure of money...
BOBSLED Competition for two-and four-man sleds. Countries can enter two sleds in each event. Course is 1,220 meters long, has 14 curves and a vertical drop of 97 meters. Sleds are steel and aluminum with lead weights permitted to attain maximum allowable weight. Best combined time for four runs wins...
Scratch a Flexible Flyer and underneath lies a luge. The principal difference, of course, is a matter of speed. The luge run at Innsbruck will produce a maximum speed of almost 70 m.p.h., and belly flopping is grounds for disqualification. The racers lie on their backs and steer with their feet. East German women won gold and silver medals in 1968, but were disqualified for illegally heating their steel runners before the race. On cold steel, they swept all medals at Sapporo and should do so again. Margit Schumann is the best woman, and Countryman Hans Rinn is also...