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...office. Radcliffe officials now only await a vote on the down-zoning petition to limit Harvard's building space that over a hundred Observatory Hill residents signed last spring. Yet whether or not the Council passes the petition, Radcliffe could still build the gym, since it fits the strictest zoning regulations...
Atlanta has one of the most rapidly declining juvenile-crime rates in the country?along with some of the strictest judges. Chief Judge Tom Dillon insists that offenders be tried within ten days after they are indicted. "A child's memory is short," says Dillon. "The sooner facts are presented after the offense has occurred, the better it is for everyone, most of all for the child...
Some brief crucial moments of this taping have been kept in strictest secrecy by Frost. According to those who have seen the taping, Nixon's responses provide a dramatic high point in the interviews. Frost feels they add a memorable moment to Nixon's long political life. A Nixon aide, however, thinks "the boss" came off well, though the experience was "draining." If by any chance Nixon comes off too well?in terms of either his answers or his dramatic appeal?there will certainly be Watergate authorities more than eager to set his record straight...
...peculiarly spare, even austere ring; Karajan caught that quality by the simple expedient of exposing all its modal harmonies and laying out its violent cross-rhythms firmly and precisely. Best of all perhaps was the Beethoven Ninth. This was one of those uncommon moments in which the strictest adherence to the letter of the score had a liberating effect. Rarely has the scherzo been taken at such a whirlwind pace; rarely has its tricky beat sounded so clearly...
Generally, the boycott is taken most seriously by Arab states relatively close to Israel. Saudi Arabia is one of the strictest enforcers of the ban. Without the boycott, U.S. officials estimate, American business in Saudi Arabia would increase by 25%. On the other hand, Morocco and Algeria virtually ignore the boycott. In all, despite the boycott, sales by U.S. firms to Arab countries have soared from $820 million in 1970 to an estimated $7 billion this year. At the same time, American sales to Israel have climbed from $594 million in 1970 to an estimated $1.5 billion this year...