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...only trouble is there are about 100 candidates each year for both the heavy and light freshmen crews. As with football, this number dwindles considerably after the freshman get a look-see at nine-month rigors of rowing and training...
...drop in energy demand caused partly by the world recession, as well as the nine-month price freeze declared by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, has given the U.S. a brief respite from the energy crisis-a few months of abundant supplies and stable, though high prices. The nation should have used this period to plan strategy for freeing itself of its dangerous dependence on foreign oil. Last week it became painfully clear that the nation has instead fallen asleep in the eye of a storm. On Oct. 1, oil prices will almost certainly take another jolting jump...
Some mainland projects are based on the West's Spanish heritage. Sponsored by Arizona and California, some 240 men, women and children will leave Horcasitas, Mexico, on Sept. 25 for a nine-month trek by horse and wagon to re-enact the 1775-76 expedition that settled the San Francisco Bay area and established Mission Dolores and the Presidio. Along the way, the wagons will stop for Bicentennial celebrations in several Southwestern cities. San Jose is recreating a 19th century ambience in six square blocks and twelve buildings, including a firehouse, hardware store and bank. Los Angeles has lined...
...cast a further shadow on Pauling's theory. In one of two studies published in the A.M.A. Journal, 311 volunteers at the National Institutes of Health took part in an experiment in which about half were given one gram of vitamin C three times daily for a nine-month period; the remainder took a placebo under the same circumstances. If a volunteer showed signs of coming down with a cold, the dosage of pills -whether vitamin C or placebo-was increased by three grams per day. N.I.H. researchers report that the effects of the vitamin on the number...
...last spring to urge legislators to extend the local option law indefinitely. That law allows "middle-sized" cities such as Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline to impose rent controls. During one demonstration, the groups scored lawmakers for "postponing debate on the issue until after the gubernatorial election." They said a nine-month extension would remove the pressures for politicians to take a stand on rent controls...