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...president's term be "reviewed" by the Yale Corporation every seven year. Whatever that meant-since no president has tenure and can be fired at any time-Brewster's first seven years just happened to be coming to a close and, to no one's surprise he was allowed-nay, encouraged -to remain at his post. In that same speech, however, he dismissed unilaterally the growing pressure for student representation in university decisions. Students don't want power, Brewster revealed, they really want responsiveness (whatever that meant) from the administration. And he planned to supply them with all the responsiveness...
...short, I am a pro-football nut. And I share my insanity with thousands -nay, millions-of others who have turned a weekend entertainment into a mystique, an obsession, and a secular religion...
...remarkable reflection of public anger against dirty air, the Senate last week passed the most draconian bill in the new history of environmental politics. Sponsored by Maine's Edmund S. Muskie, the National Air Quality Standards Act of 1970 swept through the Senate without a single nay vote. The key target was automotive exhaust, the nation's chief air pollutant. But even Michigan's Robert Griffin, a staunch supporter of the auto industry, voiced only nominal protest and then voted for the bill. "Congratulations," said one Senator. "You've just gotten motherhood through...
...could reply to McGovern, time had run out for debate on the amendment, which its supporters called an end-the-war measure and its foes termed a lose-the-peace proposal. It was killed by a 55-to-39 vote, as 34 Republicans and 21 Democrats, mostly Southerners, voted nay...
...cited numerous horror stories about the grim effects of the law on pregnant girls, many of whom they knew personally. They begged him to support a perennial reform bill. Michaels sympathized, but when the bill came up in the legislature last spring, he was prepared to vote "nay"?especially in an election year...