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...rich enough to have you meet them on Martinique. You might have tried out for the lacrosse, baseball, tennis or golf teams--all are planning group vacations in the sun--but not everyone can make it. Dorm crew or driving the shuttle bus to earn enough to rent one-seventh of a Toyota for the trip to Fort Lauderdale would have hurt your chances for Group III. However, there's no excuse for not selling tickets to the Pudding show and getting the trip to Bermuda. You're lucky that The Crimson even realizes that you're still here...
...tribunal also oversees a highly refined campaign-financing system. Before the campaigning begins, the treasury distributes funds to the parties according to a formula based on the number of votes they got in the previous election; one of Carazo's triumphs was the fact that his Unity Party managed to win even though, at $353,000, its campaign kitty was one-seventh as large as the Liberation Party...
...Reader's Companion. "Perpetrated" by Dilys Winn (Workman Publishing; 522 pages; $14.95 hardcover, $7.95 paper). For devotees of mysteries, thrillers and spy stories, this is the unputdownable reference work and ultimate argument settler. How many of those "little gray cells" did Hercule Poirot have? (One trillion.) Nero Wolfe's actual weight? (One-seventh of a ton.) Which British poet laureate and which U.S. President wrote murder stories? (C. Day Lewis and Abraham Lincoln.) With 150 contributions about crime writers, cops, critics, scientists, ex-spies, a stoolie, a butler who didn't do it and many others, Winn...
...everyone will be December 14, the date the council has scheduled a public hearing to consider the petition. If the council approves a change in the zoning map, Harvard will be left with about one-seventh the building space it has now--which will still be enough room to build...
...election commission sets the quota, which is one-tenth plus one of all votes cast for council seats and one-seventh plus one for the school committee...