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...student's cigarette starts a $135,000 early-morning fire in the new section of Quincy House. Four suites are destroyed; no one is injured, but at least five locks on emergency doors fall to function. Sheldon Diets wins a partial victory in the loading-dock controversy; he says it proves "we're neither crackpots nor troublemakers...
Another possibility envisioned is the fully or partial closing of McCarthy Road. If the University acquired the McNamara house it would ask the City for permission to close the entire road. It it failed to acquire the plot, it would only ask that part of the road be closed...
...Sometimes the pseudoliberal can become a monkey on your back," McKissick tartly explained to Charlotte, N.C., Reporter Dwayne Walls shortly before his election. "They have only a partial commitment, and they think in terms of the great progress the Negro has made instead of thinking of the great injustice...
...Wilson's partial alternative to the confusion of the present anti-poverty program is to disburse federal funds directly to the poor: "it increases the freedom and resources of the recipient" and "places minimal demands on the bureaucratic system...
...DeBakey concedes that a partial or even total artificial heart must be considered only a stopgap, until preventive measures against heart disease are perfected. But even if these were achieved tomorrow, he declares, "the present generation would require the benefits of a workable artificial heart." Such a device might save the lives of an estimated 300,000 U.S. heart-attack victims each year...