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...Blow. Two years ago, Symonds made a seemingly pointless request: he asked FPC for the whole New England market. The FPC, having already decided the case, threw his plea out without a hearing. Symonds went to court, charging that FPC's action denied him due process of law. Cheerfully, he explained his action: "They [Algonquin] delayed us for two years . . . and made all the trouble they could. I'm just vindictive enough to want to do the same thing to them...
Algonquin sniffed at the suit, went right ahead laying its pipe. Last April it got a shock. Philadelphia's U.S. circuit court ruled that FPC had, indeed, injured Northeastern, ordered its plea for the whole market heard. Algonquin appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and went on building. But last October the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the appeal. Algonquin finally woke up to the realization that it had spent $40 million on a pipeline which it had no legal right to use. It begged FPC for a temporary "emergency" permit to finish the line...
Always alert to our readers' sensibilities, we have restricted this year's installment of the parietal crusade to two gentle editorials. The Student Council has muffied its annual plea as well. It appears now, ominously enough, that this orgy of restraint has had a generally soporific effect on the Administrative Board, that it has lulled the Senior Tutors and Deans into the belief that a mere shuffling of hours is enough to scotch the annual uproar once and for all. What better proof is there than the restrictive proposal which issued forth last Monday from University Hall...
Speaking of Whatmough's recent plea to push language instruction back into the secondary schools, Ferand said. "The difference seems to me to lie in the fact that in the United States you are not specializing when you go to college, whereas we in France specialize in the Colleges...
Pressure to keep Lamont Library open seven days a week and until midnight on weekdays increased yesterday as the Student Council voted to support 500 freshman petitioners in their plea to Lamont's director, Philip J. McNiff...