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...point that came out of the community leaders' March summit conference with three members of the Board of Overseers was that the locals are fed up with the regular channels for dealing with University-city relations. These residents are disgusted because they are forced to deal with a phalanx of Harvard offices that view every suggestion as a threat and every meeting as a confrontation. Their disgust is compounded by frustration that occurs when Bok's Mass. Hall guards tell even neighborhood alumni that it is a waste of the president's time to meet with them...
...Matrix that the millionth digit of π-if it were ever computed, would be the number 5. Even angrier are those occultivated believers in extrasensory perception and faith healing. From the beginning of his career, Gardner has been illuminating the dark corners of paranormal science to reveal a phalanx of sleight of handworkers and mail-order Barnums...
...after viewing some of the best of Germany's modern art, asking if he couldn't pick up a dozen or so cut-rate paintings of beer- hall scenes for his Secret ServiceI agents. Nor was there the board-chairman bearing of Richard Nixon trailed by a phalanx of grim courtiers shooting Super-8 movies...
...seemed reminiscent of the "You Auto Buy Now" blitz of the late 1950s. The U.S. auto industry is in its worst sales slump since the recession of 1958. Pressured by a phalanx of woes ranging from high gasoline prices to plunging consumer confidence and virulent inflation that has driven car prices to record levels, sales for U.S. models in early November were running at a paltry annual pace of 5.4 million. That was sharply below the 7.5 million rate for October and nowhere near the record 11.5 million in sales last year...
...stretch of the imagination will the U.S. Senate Chamber on Jan. 20, 1975, look the way it did on Jan. 5, 1937, when a bleak band of 16 Republicans assembled to face a phalanx of 76 Democrats on the other side of the aisle. But the Democrats did reasonably well in last week's elections: they scored a net gain of at least three seats, thereby increasing their strength in the Senate to 61 (with 38 for the Republicans and one contest still in doubt). More important, perhaps, they elected a particularly impressive freshman class. Among the more promising...