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...This proposal will shorten reading period and that will encroach on a student's Christmas vacation," John Crocker III '77, CHUL representative from Eliot House, said yesterday...
Funnily enough, the candidates' political pratfalls were expected a lot sooner. Ford and Carter came into the campaign like Herblock caricatures. The Hard-Nosed Bumbler ("We must either shorten our Presidents or lengthen our helicopter doors," said Bill Vaughan) was opposed by the Born-Again Peanut Farmer ("I pray 25 times a day," Carter was misquoted by Mort Sahl, "but I've never asked God to make me President because I didn't want to take advantage of the relationship"), with teeth like Bugs Bunny ("That man can eat a pineapple through a tennis racket," observed Comedian...
...attention to the P.B.A.'s disapproval of a work schedule and wage package offered to the union by the financially pressed city. The P.B.A. was angered by a change of hours that would raise a patrolman's work time from 243 days a year to 253 and shorten his weekends. It also insisted upon a pay raise of 6%, retroactive to July 1975, a demand for which it had won court backing, though the case is now being appealed. Other city unions had forgone raises until last month because of the city's fiscal crisis...
...atmosphere in the Northern Hemisphere was one full degree centigrade colder than in 1949. But there have been indications of a slight warming since then. If the cooling-theory school is correct, however, the prospects for man are chilling. A global average temperature drop of only 1° could shorten the growing seasons in the temperate zones by a critical week or more and reduce food supplies. Increased heating requirements would put a further strain on energy sources...
Facing a critical situation, Congress acted characteristically: it dawdled over the bill to reactivate the commission, declining even to shorten its 12-day Easter recess, while one candidate after another went broke. Congress finally bestirred itself last week to reconstitute the FEC, but its legislation may still have a way to go before becoming law. Gerald Ford has serious constitutional reservations about the bill-it allows either house of Congress to veto FEC regulations, and that may be an abridgment of executive authority. Ronald Reagan, among others, thinks the bill gives labor too much and business too little influence...