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...also passed a proposal which would allow students to change the status of a course from pass/fail to graded until the Monday after Thanksgiving recess in the fall and the Monday after March break in the spring. However, under the proposal students may change only one course after the fifth Monday of the term, the present deadline for such a change...
...wage freeze is ridiculous. Still, the freeze seems to have a good chance of passing. Even if it fails, the Senate bill will differ markedly from the Administration-designed aid package soon going before the House. There is not much time to resolve the differences. Congress aims to recess by Dec. 21, and probably will not convene before Jan. 22. Chrysler has warned that if it does not get aid by St. Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, bankruptcy will strike...
Darkness Visible, By William Golding. (Farrar, Straus Giroux, $10.95): Last time you read Golding you were in sixth grade: Teacher handed you Lord of the Flies; you read it, you staggered, and understood why the bully relished slamming the seesaw over your head during recess. You self-pityingly gazed in the mirror, shook your head and whispered "Piggy...
...bill before Christmas. Though Proxmire's opposition to the bailout is genuine enough, by last week he had agreed to a Riegle request that his hearings on the bill be moved forward from Nov. 19 to next week, so that they could be finished before the Thanksgiving recess...
...once I and most of my colleagues understood the significance of what we had heard. In the immediate recess I asked for, my aide, Winston Lord, and I shook hands and said to each other: "We have done it." Haig, who had served in Viet Nam, declared with emotion that we had saved the honor of the military men who had served, died and suffered there...