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...EFFECT OF these essentially irrelevant comments, if HEW pays attention to them, would be to narrow the regulations' scope, and to pare down HEW's enforcement ability. Once again, then, whether Harvard's suggestions are valid depends on whether Harvard can be trusted to implement Title IX without close supervision. In a third group of comments, those which claim that the regulations "do not provide sufficient safeguards for women," Harvard seeks to show that it can be trusted, and that indeed it is in a position to give advice on the matter. One of these comments objects to the prohibition...
...with determination, reduce its dependence on the cartel's oil. America now burns 16 million bbl. of oil daily. Of that, 6.3 million bbl. a day-or 35% of the nation's oil consumption and 18% of its total energy-flows from abroad. If the U.S. could pare its oil demands by 1 million bbl. a day -a mere 3% of all the energy that it uses-the benefits might be considerable, not only for America but for the rest of the world as well...
...posh '30s illustration, a style made fashionable by films as varied as The Conformist and Chinatown. But Resnais undercuts all his images of antique chic (among which may be counted Anny Duperey as Stavisky's wife) with symbols of death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge Semprun (Z), present their Stavisky as a doom-haunted manic-depressive and try to groom him into a symbol for all of prewar France. There is a subplot involving Trotsky, who had sought asylum in France during that time, and Resnais obviously hoped...
John Ford's The Informer (1935) and a 30-minute short, The River, by Pare Lorentz. Thursday, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m. Fanny, directed by Marc Allegret and written by Marcel Pagnol (1932), plus a Chaplin short. Sunday, Sept...
...committee completes its voting on the articles early this week as expected, its staff would be given about a week to pre pare a final committee report on the specifics of the case against the President. A majority of the committee would have to ap prove that report before it is transmitted along with the articles to the House Rules Committee. That committee is expected to re port the articles for full-scale House debate beginning about Aug. 12, with a House vote coming perhaps Aug. 23. Quick approval for televising those proceedings is expected to be granted by vote...