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...while Spenkelink was serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery, he walked away from the minimum-security Slack Canyon Conservation Camp near Big Sur. Driving through Nebraska, he picked up a hitchhiker, Joe Szymankiewicz, 43, an Ohio parole violator who had spent 16 years behind bars for forgery, burglary, theft and other crimes. For several weeks they roamed the country, ending up on Feb. 3, 1973, in Room 4 of the Ponce de Leon Motel in Tallahassee. Next morning, a maid discovered Szymankiewicz dead in bed. He had been bludgeoned and shot twice...
...Baroque performances are fleet and supple yet they can muster the muscle of Beethoven and Schubert, avoiding only the more elaborately scored late-19th century works. In modern music they have a scintillating bite and precision. Throughout the repertory, their texture is so transparent that it allows for no slack playing, and there is none...
...nice to be involved when women's sports are on the rise here. I just hope that Harvard doesn't slack off in this regard," Curry added...
...President is counting on big corporations to take up the employment slack caused by his programs, he may have a grim surprise awaiting him. Allowing them to keep more of their profits won't cause them to create many more jobs. The Department of Commerce reports that since 1970 net corporate profits have risen 270 per cent--and unemployment has soared as well...
...influx has been welcome. At the University of Southern California, which has the largest foreign enrollment of four-year institutions, the 3,700 outlanders account for 23% of the student body. Says John Callaghan, executive director for International Students and Scholars: "With the predicted decline in domestic enrollment, the slack has to be picked up somewhere if universities are to survive." At Indiana University, where enrollment dropped by nearly 4% this academic year, 1,498 tuition-paying foreign students at Bloomington contributed $1.1 million of that school's $15 million in tuition revenues...