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...Musliner in foll and Rich Kolombatovich in epee each won two matches to strengthen the otherwise poor performance in both weapons. Dave Dooley in foil and Paul Mundie and Dave Redmond in epee won a bout each for the only other successes...
...proposal to strengthen the rules stems from a 1958 inquiry into the rights of criminal defendants, which the government dusted off without warning or explanation. If the proposal becomes law, Fleet Street will be prohibited from even reporting pretrial arraignments-the first court step in an accused man's progress to the dock. This fresh threat to journalistic freedom drew only a scattered response. The Guardian seconded the government's motion: "It is obvious that jurors who sit to hear a case in which evidence on one side has already been widely reported are not coming to court...
Even if giving out money faster than it comes in seems hopeless, the Founda tion intends to keep trying. This week it helped two of the nation's richest universities strengthen their international studies programs. Harvard got $12.5 million of Ford money and Columbia $10.9 million...
...committee had been quoted as saying that it wanted, not to abolish the present Council, but to strengthen it into an effective representative body. Wednesday it adopted an even stronger stand and demanded that the Council be replaced by an entirely new form of government to be chosen in a new referendum. The HCUA's new constitution, it maintained, was really the same as the old one and offered no real choice to Harvard undergraduates...
...committee expects response to the questionnaire to show a wide range of opinion. Such response would strengthen the committee's conviction that "Radcliffe should allow as much flexibility in living conditions as Harvard allows in academic opportunity...