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...sweltering heat which has laid siege to New England most of the week is expected to continue today, amid reports of dramatically increased water consumption and concern from local physicians that the hot spell may become a health problem...
...economy, he needs to make deep cuts in West Germany's cherished social programs. But that could unite in opposition antimilitary leftists in Schmidt's party with those who strongly favor continuing and expanding welfare programs. Schmidt's failure to overcome all of those foes could spell the end of his ruling coalition arrangement with the liberal Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.), which insists on the need for austerity...
...decision could spell legal trouble for young men who had been counting on the court to give them a reprieve from registration. Now that the constitutional question has been settled, the Justice Department intends to prosecute some of the more than 500,000 who have not yet registered. Even many of those who had, felt the exemption of women was unfair, for reasons both philosophical and practical. Said San Francisco Painting Contractor Mike Gallegioni, 21: "It will be lonely without them...
Under Adler's spell, the great ideas take on palpable form. To make them concrete, he talks about triangles and squares, black swans and schnauzers, vanilla ice cream and boxes of ball bearings...
Burger urged that at the least, every inmate should be taught to "read, write, spell and do simple arithmetic." He asked: "Without these basic skills, what chances does any person have of securing a gainful occupation?" He also proposed that vocational training be expanded for longer-term prisoners and that language and craft courses be mandatory. Sentences, he suggested, could be shortened for those inmates who "cooperate by learning...