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...Predictions from Trivia. Spaniards have turned Franco's long refusal to name his successor into a national guessing game. Its object is to predict-by attributing great significance to acts of meaningless trivia-when, if ever, Franco will restore the monarchy, and to whom, if anyone, he will give the crown. Franco plays the game, too, by scattering contradictory clues, and last week he was playing it with obvious relish. He allowed Spain's monarchists to organize a mass rally to greet Queen Victoria Eugenia at the airport, but restricted TV coverage to a 17-second film strip...
...Harvard, another variable complicates the calculations: the size of the College. It is "swollen" now, Gill believes, and might get smaller, but no one can predict this accurately...
...outlays"-a term covering expenditures and net lending under the new budget format-but this and other projections rested on expectations of a degree of cooperation from Congress that will most probably be withheld and of only a modest rise in Viet Nam expenses, which are really impossible to predict...
Gleason and others who support the Bank deny that shifting many of these costs to students will by-pass society or hurt borrowers. They point out that the country would still pay in real terms by diverting resources from production to education. They predict that a student who borrowed money to meet his huge expenses would be able to push up his salary to compensate for the large amounts he would owe the Bank...
...motion backed by the Ivies called for the elimination of the 1.6 ruling. The regulation requires a student to predict a 1.6 grade point average or better (on a 4.0 scale) upon entering college and maintain it in order to participate in NCAA-sanctioned sports events or hold a scholarship...