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University officials made it very clear this week that their plans to deal with growing inflation will bite deep into student pocketbooks: For graduate students, it was the Faculty Council's approval Wednesday of an all-new, crack-down tuition policy for those who don't pay tuition, and for...
Faced with these fundamental issues, Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss has been diligently trying to work out middle-of-the-road compromises that will avoid a split in Kansas City. His prediction: "The story of Kansas City will be that the Democrats adopted a party charter and left town...
Bouncing Back. In the N.F.C. East, the Cardinals could easily be renamed the Cinderellas. This summer, Second-Year Coach Don Coryell told his players that they would win ten games-a bold prediction considering that the team lost nine last season. Yet the players believed. Following the example of Coryell...
The most celebrated of the defendants was Lionel Cruse, head of the 155-year-old firm of Cruse et Fils Freres. When the scandal broke in June 1973, it was quickly dubbed the "Winegate" affair by French papers. Protesting his innocence, Cruse shot back in righteous anger: "You'll...
Most scientists are disturbed by the lack of solid evidence to support that dramatic prediction. Veteran Seismologist Charles Richter of Caltech, famed for his earthquake-intensity scale, calls the thesis "pure astrology in disguise. In fact, it is very close to pure fantasy." Says M.I.T. Geophysicist M. Nafi Toksoz: "I...