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...ordeal by secret ballot, the exercise had become as exhausting as the U.S. presidential primary system. Sixteen times in the course of five weeks, the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council had cast their votes for U.N. Secretary-General. Just as many times, the necessary nine countries had voted to re-elect the urbane Austrian incumbent, Kurt Waldheim, 62, who has held the job for two five-year terms. And on each occasion, the People's Republic of China had blocked a Waldheim victory by exercising to veto power. Finally Waldheim appeared to give...
...play of the defending Beanpot champs' goalie was the game's deciding factor. Sixteen saves in the final period, including a heart-breaking stop on Vicki Palmer's breakaway with 7:45 left, enabled the Terriers to up their record...
...Sixteen years ago, the Government began providing funds for low-income litigants in civil cases. It was a Great Society program intended to supplement the constitutional guarantee of a lawyer for poor defendants in criminal cases, and it worked. Last year 6,200 poverty lawyers won close to four-fifths of the cases they brought on behalf of 1.5 million eligible poor clients. (For a family of four, income must be below $10,563.) Almost all the cases involved routine problems like evictions, repossessions, divorces and discontinued Social Security payments...
...Sixteen min. later, after emerging from the blackout, Engle gave his machine the test pilot's ultimate accolade: "The bird is real solid. A good solid bird all the way." From Mission Control came a relieved reply: "Well, we love hearin' it." As Engle's bird approached California's Big Sur country, it was flying faster than a bullet-at ten times the speed of sound-and dropping like a rock, 20 times faster than a similar-size DC-9 jet on landing. Finally, it came out of the blue, a tiny, glistening white speck that...
Last weekend, Harvard qualified for the regionals by placing third at the sectionals at the University of Rhode Island, losing only to the first-place team in the tournament. Sixteen teams competed at the regional tournament this weekend, with eight--including Harvard--eliminated Saturday. Yesterday, the remaining teams played for a spot in the national tournament, set for Austin, Texas, over Thanksgiving...