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...largely powerless watchdog agency, apparently will go out of existence too. The House committee failed to act on a separate compromise bill to keep COLC alive; the overwhelming sentiment among committee members is that it should expire. After dawdling for weeks, the Administration made an eleventh-hour stab at saving COLC, but the move was too weak and came much too late. In the past six months or so, COLC has got many firms and industries, including autos, rubber and aluminum, to sign agreements to exercise restraint in pricing in exchange for being freed from formal control. If COLC vanishes...
With runners on first and second, third baseman Jim Thomas made a game-saving stab at a hot grounder, stepping on third for the first out of the inning. Following a walk, Walsh got down to business, recording a strikeout and forcing a groundout to end the rally...
...conditions were not always as crude. The MIT Varsity second team hosted two contests in the Engineer Cage. The first was a 64-61 squeaker win for Harvard. The second was a five-man stab at glory as a Classic quintet led by Darryl DePriest, John Niles and Kevin McLaughlin drove...
...suddenly the telephone rings and the friend is on the line. A vivid dream that becomes the morning reality. The sense of bumping into one's self around a corner of time, of having done and said just this, in this place, once before in precisely this fashion. A stab of anguish for a distant loved one, and next day, the telegram...
Died. Albert DeSalvo, 42, confessed "Boston Strangler"; of multiple stab wounds; at Walpole State Prison in Massachusetts. DeSalvo was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1967 for armed robbery, assault, and sex offenses against four women. Although he admitted during his trial to the strangling of 13 women between 1962 and 1964, he was never charged because of a lack of supporting evidence; later he recanted. Stabbed 16 times by an as yet unidentified slayer, DeSalvo is the fifth Walpole inmate to be murdered this year...