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...Harvard fencing team suffered a frustrating setback in its quest for the Ivy League championship last Friday in Ithaca, N.Y., losing to a stubborn Cornell squad...
...that time and while he was exiled in Vienna after 1971 Mindszenty clung prodly to his titles of Archibishop of Esztergom, an ancient see that includes Budapest, and Primate (first bishop) of the Hungarian hierarchy. Last week Pope Paul did what the Communists could not and removed the stubborn, 81 -year-old hero from office...
...appeal in the courts. Farah, son of a Lebanese dry-goods merchant, had propelled his father's business to record sales of $164 million in 1971 (profits: $6 million) mainly by cutting labor costs through using modern machinery. Last December, in testimony to his hard-driving methods and stubborn resistance to union demands, he was named "Man of the Year" by the trade magazine Clothes...
...usually allowed to settle out of the polluted water, which is filtered through gravel and sand and then chlorinated before being piped to a nearby river or lake. Trouble is, such "purified" sewage is almost always contaminated with a rich brew of bacteria and viruses, to say nothing of stubborn industrial wastes that may serve as fertilizers and cause such rapid plant growth in the waters where they are dumped that all other forms of life are eventually choked...
...Stubborn Syria. Sadat's first stop on his 11,000-mile tour was Syria, which Kissinger also visited briefly before returning to Washington last week. Both men went to Damascus to investigate the prospects of a disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel along the Golan Heights. U.S. diplomats are not notably optimistic about achieving a speedy accord. For one thing, the territory involved is smaller than that in the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations, and thus there is little elasticity in either position. Israel, which has long insisted that it has to hold the Heights to protect kibbutzim in Israeli territory...