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...meet it's emergency manpower requirements, a December 1978 letter from Selective Service officials to members of the House Armed Services Committee reveals. Some say this $2.5 billion figure is far below what it would cost to track down, investigate and prosecute the thousands of young people who would opt for a five-year prison sentence in the face of compulsory service. Even staunch militarists like Stennis say they will support more appropriations for AVF if they can achieve the desired result. Perhaps the Congress should spend more of its time making the volunteer services more attractive and streamlining...
True, even bad Shakespeare outdistances most of the pack, and Two Gentlemen could work onstage given sensitive direction and excellent acting. But most companies wisely steer clear of this play and opt for better known and better loved works that can carry their own weight. A performance of Two Gentlemen, in its original form (a musical version was produced here two years ago), is a justifiably rare bird...
...machine mayor suggests a return to the feudal, pre-Daley years when free-wheeling bosses ran wild, getting their hands into more cookie jars than modern-day Chicagoans can imagine even exist. Some of the more wily power-brokers might ally with Byrne and try to co-opt her. In any case, the people of Chicago will face four years of back-stabbing and bickering while this Dragon Lady of the Midwest, her beloved Boss peering down from his City Hall in the sky, grapples gracelessly with the many problems he left...
Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director of food services, said Wednesday that alternative meal plans would be financially feasible if at least 50 per cent of undergraduates opt for the 14 meal option...
...more flexible, variable meal plan would also entail certain coasts for the House system. By allowing any one group to opt out of a substantial number of meals, the overall function for which the Houses were first established--that of bringing together a group of students and tutors for frequent educational and social contacts--would undoubtedly be undermined. At present, most students meet other people in their House primarily by eating with them. If more students eat off-campus, a certain degree of House community and closeness would necessarily be sacrificed...