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Decisions by faculty to leave this University are seldom simple, and undoubtedly there are more factors than Leon tief's agreement with the Visiting Committee's findings that made him decide to "vote with his feet." But it is hard to see how one could retain hope in a department whose chairman holds that the "faculty's right to sell perpetuation is a sacred cow," and that "it is just not in the cards to change...
However, the real drama of the game came at 11:39 when Richie Smith was tripped from behind by the Terriers' Mike Fay inside the B.U. blue line, resulting in a seldom-called penalty shot. Smith made the goal with ease, and the Eagles were flying with a 3-1 lead...
Brutal crime is seldom commonplace but, even so, as Sherlock Holmes might have observed, from the outset the case possessed some curious features. On the afternoon of Jan. 8, a neatly dressed, well-spoken man posing as an insurance agent appeared at the door of Mrs. De-Witt Romaine in Leonia, NJ. Then, brandishing a knife and a gun, the man forced his way inside and tied up the three occupants. Remarkably, his accomplice was a young boy who appeared to be no older than eleven or twelve and whose long, sandy-colored hair gave him a somewhat girlish appearance...
...last of the great British cartoonists. But even at his apogee he seldom surpassed the best of his American colleagues. A Cartoon History offers compelling work of artists representing the whole ideological spectrum. On the political left are some superlative efforts from the World War II years: William Cropper's fascists, consuming the globe for dinner, and Saul Steinberg's Hitler, portrayed as a constipated hen. The progressives are matched in temper and tone by conservatives of the '50s: Joseph Parrish's conception of the U.N. as a Trojan horse, brimming with "alien spies"; Reg Manning...
...well as divided opinion among advisers. It is a welcome effort to face the economic and energy crisis and try to turn it around. It may well be a sign that Jerry Ford is beginning to get the hang of leadership in a post that perpetually calls for it, seldom with such urgency...