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...week also asked Washington's help in bolstering the Portuguese economy, which is bedeviled by an inflation rate of 30% a year and the return from Africa of thousands of jobless ex-colonists. Washington is likely to be sympathetic. Not only does it want Portugal to keep its newfound democracy, but it also wants to maintain the vital U.S. air base in the Azores. During the October war in the Middle East, Portugal was the only European country that openly cooperated with the U.S on aid to Israel by allowing American planes refueling rights in the Azores...
...only recently become a major influence on the world of architecture. Building experts from England, France, Pakistan and the United Nations now come to Cairo to consult him. In the U.S., a show of his works will soon begin a 20-city tour. Fathy's newfound fame results from his success in a field where everybody else has failed: public housing...
Young people are approaching their studies with newfound seriousness, crowding into college libraries and competing feverishly for grades. Observes Yale Philosophy Professor Michael Williams, 27: "There's not much goofing off these days." At Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., close to a third of the 690 freshmen told school officials that they hope to be medical doctors. Shoving matches broke out among some students in the crush to register for pre-med courses. In one dormitory at the University of Kansas, some 250 students expressed interest in a remedial clinic that aims to raise their grades by improving then...
Marion pointed to the fact that Harvard is now winning the 5-4 bouts instead of losing them as a sign of the Crimson's newfound maturity...
Well, I proudly took all of my improved "We won't Boo...How About You" spirit and my newfound ever-increasing alarm down to Section 18 that night, but an incident at the end of the Crimson's 6-5 loss made me realize that just maybe Watson was invoking a double standard in his judgments...