Word: pennsylvania
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...down the line David Kravitz, faculty adviser to the Penn State team, outlines the virtues of a modified 1975 Honda CVCC that students have converted into a diesel. The rival University of Pennsylvania crew has taken a Rabbit diesel, added a turbocharger to burn fuel more efficiently and stuck it in an elongated Honda chassis designed to seat six passengers. Says a team member: "We call it aDachshonda." The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, team has put a two-cylinder, 25-h.p. Onan industrial engine (usually used to power an electric generator) into a British Austin Mini, added an electronic microprocessor...
Governor James Thompson is being cultivated and allowed to envision himself as a potential Vice President. In April's Wisconsin and Pennsylvania primaries, Connally hopes to take on either
...Fayard lost his disability benefits because his injury was considered by his insurance company to be "nonconfining." That was because Fayard, on doctor's orders, managed to walk a few hundred yards every day for exercise. At the trial, a former claims adjuster for Fayard's insurers, Pennsylvania Life, testified that adjusters were under a quota to "close," or terminate, half their customers' claims. The jury awarded Fayard...
...implemented as an organization complementary to Crimson Key, the Freshman Task Force, Room 13 and other advising services, Kyriazis said. The program is based on a "senior-sibling" program held several years ago at the Quad and on a similar plan at the University of Pennsylvania, Kyriazis says...
Capital has worried Rosenthal ever since a family shortage of it back in Brooklyn during the Depression blocked him from entering Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He had to settle for N.Y.U., because his father, an up-and-down entrepreneur from Winnipeg, ran out of money. Rosenthal graduated summa, made an early splash on Wall Street, joined a group that took over a then bedraggled Citizens, and became its chief at 30. In the 34 years since then, the company has raised its profits and dividends every year...