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...pueblos jovenes (slums), who have been badly hurt by soaring price rises on staples, went on a binge of looting. Along Union Street, center of the department-store district, looters made off with radios, TV sets and vacuum cleaners. One man set up a sidewalk stand a scant 300 yards from the Presidential Palace, where he tried to hawk his wares at bargain prices...
Everywhere that wrestling is regarded as a major sport-only the South gives it scant attention-Stillwater is looked to as a shrine. Since the N.C.A.A. began determining national wrestling champions in 1928, O.S.U. has won 27 titles-20 more than its nearest competitor, archrival Oklahoma...
...experts. Though some economists warned that the recession was going to bite harder than Ford thought, none of them predicted the precipitous decline the economy would take before the year was out. In the fall, the President was tilting too far in his fight against inflation, but there was scant solid guidance to set him straight...
...fight to influence this powerful, stubborn University. The separate-but-equal formula is a bit anachronistic, a concept we threw out two decades ago as leading inevitably to inequality. Radcliffe's heritage is not one of equality but of inferiority as a minor irritant in Harvard's side, requiring scant attention and making it easy for Harvard to ignore the modern era and remain all-male. Radcliffe simply does not have the power to bargain with Harvard and is not an effective force for women in the university...
...Congress will surely question the Administration's twin assumptions that higher fuel prices really will bring a significant drop in consumption and that they really are needed to spur production. Right now, for instance, what seems to be holding back many oilmen is not the prospect of scant profits but a severe shortage of drilling equipment. In sum, the Administration may have a hard time selling its market approach on the Hill...