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Tomorrow is not like any other Sunday. Tomorrow is the Head of the Charles, and for oarsmen, it is the day that makes the fall training worthwhile. Heavy traffic will stir the Charles' waters, as crews from as far as West Germany will race over the course that stretches from the top of the basin to the northern Cambridge shores...
With his bulldog shape and brawling style, Franz Josef Strauss was not about to win the West German national election on looks and charisma. Throughout, he had searched for an issue to stir the electorate, something to pinprick the lofty image of his telegenic opponent, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. But every time Strauss attacked, Schmidt parried, mostly by reminding voters that West had never been so prosperous or so world affairs. "I sympathize with Strauss," said a Düsseldorf banker. "He has been in the impossible position of trying to find fault with success...
...country to film folks engaged in such competitions as women's arm wrestling and belly bucking, in which a pair of beefy brawlers try to butt each other out of a ring. Like That's Incredible!, Games invariably winds up with a harrowing stunt designed to stir even the most hardened disaster freaks...
...showing clitoridectomy and infibulation and SIDA has paid for copies. It was also shown at All Womens' House in Stockholm. I hope that this film will be shown at Harvard in spite of Dr. Counter's ridiculous protests, his hypocritical concern for 'images of blacks' and his attempts to stir up racism in the Black Students' Association. Tore Hakansson...
...Ronald E. Vanelli, director of the Science Center, says one possible renovation--converting the many glass walls and ceilings in the Science Center so that they take in and retain less heat--may cause a stir. One suggestion calls for covering the glass surfaces with plywood and painting them black, a process that would cost almost as much as insulating the windows with a second layer of glass. Abernathy doubts that idea will ever come to fruition. "You could blow the building up too, and that would remedy it," he says...