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...simply, "Reno Sports Service has NEVER LOST. 'LOCK' game" in that time. "For those readers unfamiliar with the term, a 'LOCK' is a game which for 'certain inside reasons' is as close as humanly possible to a sure thing. These game are 'LEAD PIPE CINCHES.' Our remarkable ability to select these 'LOCK' games him drive the sports book operators 'right up the wall and they have NO WAY OF STOPPING YOU FROM MAKING A KILLING...
Surely Thomas Ball deserves better, and it is up to the Boston Art Commission, Which will rule on the controversy later this month, to either leave the statue in Park Square or select a new location. Emancipation, along with other artistic anachronisms, like the blackface minstrel movies of the 1920s, best belong safely tucked away in the dusty halls of a museum, carefully preserved as a record of the past. And Mr. Lincoln, were he still around today, certainly would take no offense; as he admitted back in 1863, "I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice...
...their complaint, the publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, and a Time Inc. subsidiary, Little, Brown, charge that the faculty members "regularly select" copyrighted material and arrange for the photocopy store to run it off. These "anthologies" become, in effect, student textbooks. The Association of American Publishers, which is financing the suit, concedes that N.Y.U. is not the worst offender. "There is widespread noncompliance in the academic community," says A.A.P. Copyright Director Carol Risher. "But many schools have done more than N.Y.U. to educate their professors about the copyright...
...according to International Data Corp., a research company. But instead of shopping around for a particular machine made by Atari or Apple, canny consumers are first looking for the programs that will perform the specific tasks they most want done, such as letter writing or financial planning. Then buyers select the brand of computer that can operate that software. This year software sales for personal computers are expected to reach $590 million, an 82% rise over the past two years. By 1986 sales could reach $2.2 billion...
Perhaps Mr. Hirschorn felt it was his duty to create an exciting article. We are not going to denounce The Crimson generally because of Mr. Hirschorn's chosen style of "journalism." That would be as unfair as Mr. Hirschorn's tainting of the HMUN's image bused on select comments by a few students. We cannot deny that the students he spoke of exist and were properly quoted. We feel it is our duty, however, to give proper credit to those "most students" who Mr. Hirschorn briefly mentioned...