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While Beanpot fever continues to spread over the campus faster than an infectious disease, a senior admissions officer plows through stacks of applications from eager high school seniors. But when H. Bradley Richardson '53 can no longer plow his way out from under the essays, his thoughts invariably drift back 25 years to a packed Boston Arena...
About a year ago, Schumacher appeared on public T.V.'s "Nova", demonstrating intermediate technology's answer to the two ton tractor. Consisting of a blade attached to a motor driven winch, 50 yards of cable, and an anchor, the "intermediate plow" works as follows. One farmer walks ahead of the plow and plants the anchor. His partner then starts the plow's lawnmower engine and winches himself, plow and all, right up to the anchor. The first man runs ahead and sets the anchor again...
...back...books, notes, papers, and lots of unfinished reading to plow through in the next three weeks. The grinding sound permeates the air around Lamont, Hilles, and the ever-ominous Widener...
There remain nagging problems at home. Despite what appears to be a record grain crop in 1976 (about 223 million metric tons), Brezhnev was forced to announce this fall that he intends to plow $228 billion more into the farm sector in the next five years, acknowledging that this would crimp other sectors of the economy. He attacked shortcomings in efficiency and quality, and the "puny, partial improvements" in production of consumer goods, but offered little hope for improvement...
...smooth" chorus that, "gave new depth to a medieval choral art which in many ways is already dying." The reviews of their performance of contemporary American music (which they sang in Europe to honor the Bicentennial) were equally complimentary. Friday night the group, accompanied by a small orchestra, will plow through non-secular choral masterpieces of yet another period in a concert devoted entirely to Mozart works...