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This is a foul by any rules, and Dancer's Image was disqualified for such an infraction after winning the 1968 Kentucky Derby. A post-race urine test revealed Dancer's violation, and if Larry DiCara and others of Wednesday's officials had been on the ball, they would have gotten a urine sample from the Raccoon, also known as Rick Tarnas, and then disqualified...
...foil. Harvard's epee and sabre team should have little trouble with their opponents, M. I. T. is weak in the sabre, while Harvard's Larry Cetrulo and Richard Tolbert are good enough to win easily. They both captured two matches in the C. C. N. Y. test. Marion has seven sophomore sabremen, and one of them will gain useful experience at the number three position...
...Knauer, 54, a Philadelphia grandmother who served as Pennsylvania's consumer adviser and last April was chosen by President Nixon to head the federal consumer program. Bess Myerson Grant, the 1945 Miss America who is now New York City's commissioner of consumer affairs, recently sent inspectors out to test restaurant hamburgers. When nearly one-third of the burgers failed to meet the city's all-beef standards, Mrs. Grant complained loudly about "shamburgers," 156 people were subpoenaed, and those found guilty were fined. During her first year as Chicago's commissioner of consumer sales, Jane Byrne issued...
Still, U.S. consumers stand an increasing chance of winning in Washington. The Veterans Administration recently agreed to make public its comprehensive test data on hearing-aid performance. Nader wants the General Services Administration, the principal federal purchasing agent, to release its vast store of product information, which includes test results on goods as varied as bed sheets and flatbed trucks. Legislation is now in preparation to 1) require producers of household poisons to render their containers "childproof" by making bottles and packages harder to open, 2) set up more stringent health rules in fish-processing plants, and 3) force manufacturers...
Even if the Faculty now seems generally receptive to curricular reform, however, a coalition of particular interests and general apathy could still spell the doom of specific proposals unless they gather significant momentum-particularly among Faculty members-before they come to the Faculty as a whole. Thus, one test of the overall Faculty response will be the attendance of Faculty associates who attend the initial House meetings on curricular reform. If their participation is high-in other words if many associates wean themselves away from the departments to the Houses-the chances for curricular reform may be bright indeed...