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Welland was disappointed with his club's sloppy performance in the Bowdoin game, but hopes the team has filled its quota of bad play for the week. The rookie line's three goals and Brandy Sweitzer's play in the nets stood out in the otherwise uninspiring game...
...anguish at home. And Chukhrai pumps irony into a sequence that has Sasha posing for a photographer beside her drill press. She is alone, an unwed mother, sick with despair, but the picture is published over the caption: "Sasha Lvova finds happiness in her factory. She has enlarged her quota 163%." Director Chukhrai seems fully aware that pravda is stranger than fiction...
James F. Fitzgerald, one of the five Cambridge school committeemen, who sought re-election, was the only candidate to exceed the quota yesterday in an unofficial first count of ballots. He received 4666 first choices, 172 votes more than the 4494 necessary for election...
...Audience. Getting the news is just as difficult as getting it out. The Western correspondents have no special privileges. They must stand in line with Habaneros to get their monthly quota of five eggs; most official doors are closed to them, or else they open on government underlings who profess to know nothing...
Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 agreed that scheduling conflicts among large, populous courses is an urgent problem and one that "we are certainly going to try to work on." He called a departmental quota system "a definite start to ward solving the problem," but said "I'm enough of a realist to think you're still going to get logjams...