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...record, although 25 indictments against students and faculty members were allowed to stand. Federal officials and a presidential commission studied the shootings, but withheld a decision. Last week the Board of Christian Social Concerns of the United Methodist Church, the nation's second largest Protestant denomination, sought to reopen the case. The board, the activist arm of the relatively conservative church, issued a report suggesting that at least some of the Guardsmen on the Kent State campus had decided in advance to fire on the students and, on a prearranged signal, opened a fusillade that left four young people...
...from the one-upmanship values of a trip to China, the joys of China travel are largely inscrutable. There are few of the usual tourist attractions that draw the average American globetrotter. Museums, closed in the confusion of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, in many cases have yet to reopen, though Imperial Peking's excellent Palace Museum can be visited if special permission is obtained...
...What Hoffa says still counts with the Teamsters. The decision about whether or not to release him rests, of course, with the Federal Parole Board, which has a Nixon-appointed majority. The board said that it would not review Hoffa's case until next spring, but it can reopen a case within 90 days after rejecting an applicant. That means that Hoffa might just possibly be released this month...
...people to run it. The Dorado Hilton is scheduled to shut in June, when Hilton International ends operations there. The Dorado Hilton's owners, International Investment Co., got a promise of a $500,000 loan from the Puerto Rican government to help refurbish the hotel; they hope to reopen it in December. In addition, the government plans to buy San Juan's exclusive but ailing Racquet Club Hotel for $4,500,000 and turn part of it into a hotel school. El Convento Hotel is $4,000,000 in debt and faces a grim future...
...knockdown price for a property worth five times as much, he bought the almost new, fully equipped Mackinac College, previously run by Moral Re-Armament, on Michigan's Mackinac Island. A high school graduate himself, Humbard has launched a study to see if he can reopen the college, and he already has 452 requests for applications if he does. Even some of Humbard's loyal staffers are concerned about his ability to make this latest project pay. But Rex Humbard himself, obviously, is still a believer...