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Winthrop quarterback Charlie Slack ran eight yards to get a first down at the 15-yard line. On the next play, a Stiles-Morse defensive interference penalty gave the Winthropmen a second down. Then the running backs worked the last yards away Walter Payton-style, as the Stiles-Morse defense broke under Winthrop's offensive pressure...
...free agency, and its promised million-dollar pot of gold at the end of the option year, it does not work in football. When the game's stellar running back, Chicago's Walter Payton, offered his services to other N.F.L. teams last year, there were no takers. Why would a franchise pay a premium for Payton (and give up two draft choices) when its profits scarcely change, win or lost? In fact, a team may fatten its bottom line by not making the playoffs. All 28 teams split the postseason television money even for the Super Bowl...
Officials in both the University and the corporate community say it is impossible to expect the private sector to replace all of the cutbacks in federal funds. As Robert Payton, president of Exxon's Educational Foundation, points out, "The total sum of corporate contributions for all purposes is less than the cut in the federal budget for student aid alone." Nevertheless, the corporate community has become an increasingly vital source of educational funds, and one that the University will continue to court...
...Nancy Payton, humane issues analyst for the Massachusetts Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), who is testifying at the hearings today, said she hopes to amend the federal Animal Welfare Act to make scientists more accountable for their research. Under current law and regulations, applicants for NIH funds must submit a proposal that specifies what research will be done for review by the organization. Additionally, universities and research centers are subject to state and local animal cruelty laws and to reviews within their own institutions...
...Payton responds. "I think it's about time that scientists felt a little repressed," asking, "Don't we have a right to ask what they do with our money...