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Andy McNerney, another excellent sophomore wrestler, continued the string of victories with a 10-5 decision over Ken Lynch. Demonstrating the unorthodox--but effective--technique that seems to baffle his opponents, McNerney thundered back from a 4-3 deficit to scrap for the convincing triumph. As many opponents have discovered this year, he proved just how difficult he is to control, scoring three escapes as Lynch seemed to tire...
...program. "When you recover stolen property," boasted Dreyfus, "it ought to be handed back." Today the surplus is gone. To keep Wisconsin from going into the red in the next fiscal year, the tax-cutting Governor says he must raise the state's gasoline tax by 53% and scrap programs ranging from new highway construction to Milwaukee's student bus service...
...construction workers-have been joined at the bars (all three of them) by hordes of tourists. The gawkers find the joint a lot seamier and steamier than its movie version. Says one reformed Gilleyrat of his old crowd: "If they don't get into at least one scrap, they think their weekend is wasted.' Houston, which had a dozen cactus cabarets in 1975, now has more than 300, few of which care to emulate Gilley's Dodge City style. The most successful, Fool's Gold and San Antone Rose, are in affluent residential areas and cater...
...MANY SCHOOLS here have fewer female professors than Ronald Reagan's cabinet. But the Kennedy School, with zero, does, and for most of the last term student and women's groups have called on the school to recruit, actively, women and minority faculty and students and to scrap classroom policies they considered discriminatory. One women's group even charged that the school's lackadaisical search for women and minority faculty candidates has violated federal affirmative action hiring codes, a complaint still pending with the Department of Labor...
...these diarists was James Gilchrist Swan, one of the first whites to spend a lifetime on Puget Sound. Jettisoning a young family and comfortable life in Boston, Swan followed the feverish impulse to scrap it all and go west. From 1858 until his death in 1900 he inhabited the Olympic Peninsula, beaching his canoe in Neah Bay or Port Townsend most of the time, trekking about as loiterer, notary public, drunk, author, woodcarver, schoolteacher, friend and student of Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler...