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...UNIVERSITY ACTED wisely last week when it agreed to the demands of its married student tenants to renew leases and scrap plans for massive dormitory renovations...
...would be a fine example for the U.S.: after all, other states have set up special boards to regulate goats-milk dealers, tree experts, wholesale minnow operators, dealers in scrap tobacco. High time for many of them to fade into the sunset...
...Dinky car, a moth, a scrap of tapestry, a bow tie, some marbles, a pen nib, a pheasant feather, a piece of burnt parchment and a child's fan, all pasted onto a wooden board. Some fetishist's fun? No, it is a Victorian novelty, a riddle picture made by Britain's Princess Margaret, 45, for Roddy Llewellyn, 28, a rich young swell who recently vacationed with Margaret on the Caribbean island of Mustique. Roddy describes the work as "a private message between Margaret and myself." According to the London News of the World, Roddy, who wears...
...until last January. Then Chicago newspapers reported that he had been collecting $15,000 a year as "vice president" of Sun Steel Co., a post that, in some written statements, he implied that he no longer held. When he was accused of lobbying for legislation helpful to the steel-scrap industry, he denied the charge, but he resigned his post. On top of that, he divulged that in 1974 he declared as personal income-and paid taxes on-$100,000 in political contributions. He maintained that the money was used to retire campaign debts, though he had diverted some...
...claimed that Nixon had gone to China "to hurt President Ford in New Hampshire." Syndicated Columnist David Broder angrily forswore a promise made to himself not to write another word about Richard Nixon. "There is nothing, absolutely nothing, he will not do in order to salvage for himself whatever scrap of significance he can find in the shambles of his life," wrote the normally even-tempered Broder. "Nothing shames him." The harshest attack came from Goldwater, who claimed that Nixon had violated the Logan...