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...professors at Northwestern University is now requiring us to hand in our notes taken for the term paper. We're also required to maintain a critical bibliography on all "sources" used. RICHARD A. JANIS Evanston...
...neighbors braced for trouble. The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, put its border troops on a full alert. In Washington, the State Department conceded that the U.S. had increased naval and air surveillance of the sea approaches to Haiti. Since the island's northwestern tip is only 50 miles away from Cuba across the Windward Passage, the U.S. is worried that Fidel Castro, who has been more bellicose than usual in recent weeks, may seize upon Duvalier's death as an opportunity to stir up trouble in Haiti...
...because the municipalities own them. The University of Michigan earns a tidy income from Willow Run Airport, on which it pays no property taxes; Michigan State University's exempt holdings include a large department store in Lansing. Thanks to a charter exemption similar to that of Cooper Union, Northwestern University for years has enjoyed a steady stipend from a supermarket, a medical office center and several downtown Chicago office buildings that it bought and then leased back to corporations...
...leads them to suspect genetic defects, physicians feel that the benefits more than justify the danger; for the tests, which have been carried out on more than 10,000 women in the U.S. alone in the past 40 years, have proved extremely accurate. Using amniocentesis, Dr. Henry Nadler, a Northwestern University pediatrician, diagnosed mongolism in ten of 155 high-risk pregnancies tested. Subsequent examination of the fetuses showed that his diagnosis was correct in all cases...
...studying rail-transit problems and has since won a profitable, $66.7 million contract to construct cars for San Francisco's new rapid-transit system. Railroads of all kinds are the projects most often mentioned as possible conversion targets for the aerospace industry. Says Dr. Richard Michaels, research director of Northwestern University's transportation center: "There is no way to make rail passenger service profitable with the technology we have today. It is a natural problem for the space industry...