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...anything good can be said about the budget ordeal at MSU it's that for the most part, it's over. Studer says that student morale is pretty high now that all the cuts are definite. "At first, it was perceived there would be a mass exodus from the university. Now there's very little talk about that. It's a process you'd only want to go through once, but the university and the students will come out stronger for it." And Studer notes that MSU has purged from its system what several universities have yet to confront...
...LOOK AT HIM, you would never suspect what he has gone through. Few visible scars betray his ordeal. His socks and shoes conceal the most obvious reminders--an extensive collection of burns on his legs and feet, which were slit open and then cauterized with smoldering cigarettes. Of course, maybe if you looked closely, you might notice his crooked jaw, which protrudes unevenly, expecially when he indulges in a rare smile. His hunched shoulders and shuffling gait--the drooping posture of one who faced prison torture for over a year--call more attention to themselves, especially as he walks around...
...despite allowing only one earned run...Allard has avoided a repeat of last year's disatrous start, rapping a pair of rbi doubles in five at bats on the day. "I never lost my confidence," Allard says of last year's sub-.100 ordeal. The sophomore (listed as a freshman on the Princeton program) played the opener in left field, and replaced Danny Bowles in right four innings into the second game...They Should Know By Now Dept.--After walking to open the first game. Princeton's Tom Michel tested senior catcher Joe Wark's arm with an attempted steal...
...drew pistols and demanded money from the cashier. Ramp remained silent in the dressing room, where she had been trying on a shirt, until the men had made their getaway with about $300. "If I had surprised them, anything could have happened," she says. Ramp emerged from the ordeal unscathed-but $25 poorer: "After watching the whole thing, I felt obliged to buy the shirt." Assistant Picture Editor Sue Considine, who gathered the photos that accompany the cover stories, lost $120 from her pocketbook in a Greenwich Village restaurant. Says she: "Now I know to keep...
Thus began an 18-hour ordeal that confronted Spain's struggling young democratic regime with its most serious challenge since the death in 1975 of Dictator Francisco Franco. Never in postwar memory had the democratically elected parliament of any Western nation been subjected to such an outrage. To many Spaniards the brazen act was all too reminiscent of Franco's own assault on a fragile Spanish republic in 1936; that coup had triggered a bloody three-year civil war and ushered in 40 years of dictatorship. Would his diehard followers now bathe the Cortes in bloodshed and perhaps...