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...About one-fourth of the roof's metal sheathing, installed as part of the $2.3 million renovation of Watson Rink to cover the permanent structure underneath, became detached during the incident, August Sartucci, project manager, said yesterday...
Despite the willingness of Heng Samrin's regime to accept outside assistance, only about one-fourth of the necessary supplies has been committed. The government has not acceded to the proposal by relief agencies to establish a "land bridge" from Thailand, over which thousands of tons of rice and other goods could be trucked in. But aid officials now sense a willingness to cooperate among Cambodian officials. It remains to be seen what will be the impact of the new attitude. Some 180,000 Vietnamese troops are preparing a final offensive against Pol Pot's surviving forces. Their...
...emotionalism, Higgins should be implacable, for a bohemian professor must remain oblivious to women. Hollander conveys that imperturbability, if somewhat blandly in the first few scenes. His solos, designed for enunciators rather than singers, display his rhetorical skills admirably. Unfortunately, the orchestra, even at low volume, drowns out about one-fourth of his and Tompsett's lyrics...
...Soviet as well as American aerial reconnaissance photos revealed what looked suspiciously like an atomic test site in the Kalahari Desert, a wasteland that covers nearly one-fourth of the country...
...one photograph and to care for one plant. Plebes learn to live with endless room inspections and constant hazing by upperclassmen, with whom they are never allowed to fraternize. They rise with bugle and bell calls at 6:15 a.m. for a 6:30 breakfast formation, and taps sound at 11 p.m. Once during the school year they are allowed to leave campus--at Christmas break. Cadets of the opposite sex are allowed in the barracks rooms during the day, but only if the door is ajar. Not surprisingly, the dropout rate during plebe year is one-fourth to one...