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...bill also will allow specific emergency grants to colleges "in danger of collapse" because of financial difficulties. The measure provides new aid to students, including an outright grant of up to $ 1,400 a year to every student, minus whatever his family can be expected to contribute. Whether or not the funds to meet this goal will be appropriated is still to be seen. The bill also bans discrimination against women in the admissions policies of public colleges and all graduate schools...
...York University, takes a dim view of the whole movement. "Most occultniks," says Rachleff, "are either frauds of the intellectual and/or financial variety, or disturbed individuals who frequently mistake psychosis for psychic phenomena." Yet for all its trivial manifestations in tea-leaf readings and ritual gewgaws, for all the outright nuts and charlatans it attracts, occultism cannot be dismissed as mere fakery or faddishness. Clearly, it is born of a religious impulse and in many cases it becomes in effect a substitute faith...
THOMAS also charged Ryan with interfering too much in the day-to-day management of the publishing division. Ryan dismisses the accusations outright. His face turns red consistently when the subject of Thomas is broached...
...from out of state. The girls are easy pickings for the alert, dapper, slick-talking pimps, who find them around hamburger joints, huddled in doorways, cruising Washington Square Park on Sundays. Some even get picked up on arrival at the Port Authority bus terminal. Sometimes the girls are kidnaped outright, like Chickie. More often they are hungry, discouraged, possibly drug-addicted, ready for the smooth stud in the broad-brimmed hat whispering promises of food, shelter, drugs and his special brand of love...
Japanese officials have now banned Entero-Vioform outright, while Australia has eliminated over-the-counter sales. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers Entero-Vioform safe if used as directed and plans no action against the drug, which is sold in this country by prescription only...