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...fastest-rising practitioners of the art is Howard Ruff, 48, a smiling, pleasant fellow who works out of San Ramon, Calif. He is the author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (Times Books; $8.95), a guide for survival in "the next recession, which will happen some time shortly after the publication of this book," as it states on page 15. Says Ruff, whose tremulous text has gone into its fourth printing and is in fourth place on TIME'S nonfiction bestseller list: "There is cynicism about Government and institutions and an immense searching for someone...
...another case of nonexistent candidates, Ramon Diaz posted his platform proposal on the board in the union. Or so the organizers of the election thought. After his name was put on the ballot, Carl Rosen '79, who is in charge of freshman elections, discovered that no such student exists. The phone number given for the fictitious Diaz was that of Hurlbut proctor Raymond Mendez...
...They don't burn well," said Ramon, "Besides, I gotta eat inter-house all next week." By the time we'd put this through parlimentary procedure, some members of our group had collected some twigs, and a few kids from another organization had lowered their Prexy down the bookdrop at Pusey Library by the ankles, so we put some Matthew Arnold on the griddle...
...home. After an inquiry, a Curry County grand jury indicted Mrs. Ernestine Favela, 23, married, mother of two small children, on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a 15-year-old boy. But two weeks ago, a divided state appeals court threw out the indictment. Judge Ramon Lopez explained that delinquency was defined as conduct that would be criminal in an adult, and noted that New Mexico had eliminated criminal penalties for consensual sex between adults. Concurring, Judge Lewis Sutin called intercourse with a young boy "nothing more than sex education essential and necessary in his growth toward maturity...
...impact of these projects on Lake Placid has been enormous. Winter unemployment in Essex County often runs as high as 20% of the work force. This year more than 200 people from the area are employed in Olympic construction, which has, according to Project Manager Ramon Lopez, brought $1.6 million in wages into the region since last spring. Northern New York companies have also benefited, winning 32 of the 38 contracts totaling $25,212,370 awarded by competitive bidding...