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Just this week, the House Rules committee granted H.R. 13778 passage to the House floor, where many predict easy passage. "If it comes up on the floor tomorrow, it would pass," Joel Packer, legislative director of the United States Student Association, said last week. With the approval of both houses--some predict the conference committee's work may take less than a day--the government will have adopted Cabinet department number...
...vital enough to the national interest to merit the status and visibility that a Cabinet-level position implies. Because there is no one person who speaks for education--and consequently no one person to blame for national educational failures--supporters argue that a national spokesman for education is needed. Packer argues that elevating education to Cabinet status will help improve its status and visibility. "President Carter has said education has only been brought up twice in Cabinet meetings," he notes, adding that a new department would insure that educational programs got their fair share, for example, when budgetary hats...
Young said he was "very pleased" with the drills, but Frank Packer '81 said yesterday the drills were "sort of needless--half the people didn't come...
What drove many fans to fury was the fact that a major defector to Packer was none other than the colorful captain of England's own international team: gangling (6 ft. 7 in.) South African-born Tony Greig, who justified his action by saying that he was fighting "for a principle." The tradition-minded barons of the game did not see it that way; they quickly stripped him of his title. One cricket commentator offered a huffy explanation for Greig's behavior: he was "an Englishman not by birth or upbringing, but only by adoption...
Last week the ICC warned that Packer's players had until Oct. 1 to return to the fold, or be banned from officially sanctioned competition-a punishment equivalent in cricket to excommunication from the church. The threat brought immediate results. Several of the stars immediately announced that they were reneging on their deal with Packer, and others were having second thoughts. At week's end Packer had not admitted defeat, but it began to look as if cricket would successfully weather his brash effort to inject show biz into its Edwardian reverie...