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...assembly to hold a binding referendum that could ban students who are members of Harvard political parties from running for election to the assembly. The referendum question passed by the assembly last night is non-binding and would not ban political parties in the assembly. If 640 students--one-tenth of the undergraduate student body--sign Winthrop's petition, the assembly is required by a clause in its constitution to place the binding question on the referendum...
CRIMSON SPLASHES: Retired Harvard star Liz Kelly's record of 5:03.03 in the 500-yd. freestyle withstood a strong test Thursday as the 1979 winner in the event just missed the mark by one-tenth of a second...The 29-point total, though leaving Harvard well behind the leaders, could be the start of the women's finest showing of the year with the Crimson women turning in some strong individual times...
...Filipacchi put up 51%, six French partners the rest) might be exhausted before the new venture got on its feet, he decided to lower the publishing frequency to twice a month and raise the price to $1.25. At the outset Look expects to sell 600,000 copies, less than one-tenth the 6.5 million total the old Look had when it folded. If things go according to plan, readership will swell to 1.5 million in three years, and the magazine will break into the black...
...incidence of cancer among women who do not use estrogen is less than one-tenth that of women who take estrogen, the article reports. The incidence of cancer among those who use estrogen is between 1 and 3 per cent...
...several centuries. We spent most of the time picking fruit: peaches, pears, and cherries. Each day, every day, we slowly wound our way among the trees, picking the fruits as quickly as we could, as time ticked by ever so slowly. The Vallets had only 30 acres, less than one-tenth the size of the average American farm, and so every last fruit had to be picked, and not a peach could be wasted...