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Reading period appeared to have taken an early toll--the quality of play did not match normal Crimson standards. Harvard barely staved off the enterprising Engineers, finishing with 416 to MIT's 418 for five einghteen-hole rounds. Northeastern fell asleep out in the sunshine and trailed home with...
...would be a remarkable achievement, for the toll exacted by drunken drivers has been numbingly consistent over the years. In an average week, nearly 500 Americans die in alcohol-related auto accidents; 20,000 more are injured. The light legal penalties and the high public tolerance for that carnage may now be ending. Last week the Reagan Administration announced the formation of a 30-member commission to coordinate anti-drunken driving efforts and focus public attention on the problem...
Such safeguards lessen the likelihood of jet lag's serious effects, even without the most formidable medical weapon: on-ground rest. Says the ex-general: "This job is easier than fighting a battle." How long the Secretary can go on with his pace without a greater toll, however, is a matter still very much airborne...
Even in areas of the country that were spared snow, ill winds brought destruction and death. Over the past two weeks, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and Florida have been hit by at least 23 tornadoes. The toll: 26 dead, more than 300 injured and about $55 million in property damage. Governors of three states have already asked the Federal Government to declare the affected communities disaster areas. Farther north, the snows that blanketed the Midwest and Northeast claimed at least 40 lives. In Iowa, five people died in traffic accidents after a storm with 40-m.p.h. winds dropped...
...rigors of his job are such that he suffers phobic reactions when he boards the subway to come to work and again when he gets in the city hall elevator. Hynes has applied for a lifetime disability pension of $28,800 annually. Government service has also taken a toll on Richard Sinnott, 55, the former city censor. In charge of issuing permits for rock concerts, Sinnott occasionally took in the acts. The rowdy crowds, he claimed, "instilled a sense of terror throughout my entire body. I was reduced to a shell of myself, barely able to function." His pension request...