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...Introductory freshman crew meeting. If you were one of the "select few" that received notes this summer imploring you to join the crew team because of your superior athletic prowess, don't be deluded. Crew coach Harry Parker sends these notices to almost all freshman except those who weigh over 400 pounds or have no arms. Expect to see half the class there...
...academic background. One index of the increasing pressure on young Japanese to pile up an impressive gakureki is the phenomenal rise of after-hours or weekend schools known as juku. Their main purpose: to help students cram for tough competitive entrance exams required to get into the most select high schools and the best colleges...
...convert goods to cash than it is fraudulent checks." Also, "One of the most elegant frauds in the pension area ... involves changing the address of a legitimate beneficiary to that of the embezzler or an accomplice at the time of the beneficiary's death. It is best to select beneficiaries with no life insurance...
Magical Boats. Perhaps because of the knowing eye of J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery director who helped select the paintings, the show has interesting examples of artists who are almost too catalogued in the common memory. Take Guardi. The mind leaps to Venice's canals, but the show's Guardi is a fantastical landscape of writhing trees and magical boats. Boucher? Rather than playful nymphs and naked amoureuses, there are a phantasmagoric cottage and tower that the brothers Grimm might have imagined. And Ruisdael, that painter of flickering Dutch light, is represented by a picture...
...championed free enterprise and attacked Government regulation. He has urged continued heavy defense spending. He has rather cold-bloodedly neutralized the conservatives' hostility to Rockefeller by stressing the fact that the President and the Vice President are not a team and the G.O.P. delegates will be free to select the Vice President. Privately, Ford has no intention of dropping Rocky, who he keeps insisting is not really a liberal. He admires his Veep's abilities and needs him on the ticket to win independent and Democratic votes in the election...