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...upper class Latin Americans would never organize any genuine reform programs which would threaten their own position of power. They opposed any attempt at graduated income or land taxes to fund the programs. Meanwhile, as the Cuban threat diminished, Congress cut funds at each session...
...anonymity has been badly bumped by the imbroglio over Watergate. "The current happenings around the White House have driven him almost to the point of exhaustion," says a friend. As Dean well knows, the waves from Watergate contributed to washing out another close Nixon aide, Dwight Chapin. They threaten to finish off L. Patrick Gray III, and they could even inundate John Dean...
...then Farmer Brown will frown on the old briar patch and call it wasteland and threaten to clear away all the bushes and trees," wrote Author Thornton Burgess in 1947, in "The Old Briar Patch." But in the end Farmer Brown always decided to save the patch - and so last week did the town of Sandwich, Mass. (pop. 5,000). By unanimous vote, the 800 citizens decided to spend $200,000 to buy up 57 acres of meadows, ponds and forest, including the five acres of bull and cat briars that har bored such Burgess creatures as Reddy Fox, Bobby...
...Easterns this year with an ankle injury compiled a 7-0-1 record this season and is expected to win considerably more matches next year. Jim Strathmeyer, who received this year's Ames award for the most improved wrestler, should be over the first year nervousness to threaten the East...
...LAST several weeks legislation has been introduced into Congress that, if passed, will severely threaten Harvard's economic security. We oppose the general thrust of a national program that simultaneously deprives colleges and universities of previously taken-for-granted Federal aid and destroys the tax incentive of private donors to replace the lost funding...