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Other residents have objected to possible parking and sewage problems surrounding the building proposal. Although Voss said yesterday the academy would hold only eight conventions annually, Reiser said some residents are also concerned about traffic and parking overflow...
Even if the objections could be overcome, there would still be an oil overflow until one or another of the schemes could go into effect. As a temporary, though unlikely, patch, it has been suggested that the U.S. export Alaskan crude to Japan, swapping it for part of Japan's supply of oil from the Middle East. But that would require presidential approval and congressional concurrence. The President's decision is expected this week or next. The only other immediate way to use all the oil would be to ship it by tanker through the Panama Canal...
University and library officials will not disclose how the theft occurred or was discovered, though sources say the overflow of books in Nelson's office--many of which were his own, including quite a few new publishers' review books--may have easily caused enough curiosity to cause someone to report them...
...film, The World's Greatest Lover, he plays a doltish Midwestern baker who goes to Hollywood and changes his name to Rudy Valentine. When his wife (played by Carol Kane) lets the bathtub overflow in the couple's posh hotel suite, Wilder passes it off as an added luxury of the place and swims laps, to the astonishment of his aunt and uncle. The slapstick is pure Wilder. He not only stars in the film but is also the writer, director and producer-a quadruple task he says "makes me want to go home and cry sometimes." Despite...
Except for an understandable overflow of sentiment, the final episode of Upstairs, Downstairs, PBS's blue-chip 'British import, was of a piece with its predecessors. There was the titillating peek into the ways of conspicuous consumption: among other extravagances, the recipe for Georgina's four-tiered wedding cake calls for 16 pounds of currants. There was the history bulletin: Hudson snaps shut his newspaper (the time is 1930) and announces that two million Englishmen are unemployed. There was the subtle reminder that no servant is a heroine to her mistress: in an unusual fit of garrulity...