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...aspirations go when the '50s disappear? One may as well ask where all the poodles go when Yorkshires become the fashion. A snowfall on Second Avenue during a college visit is apparently enough to send some girls to the city. Why they stay can be a matter of tortuous rationalization. "I consciously seek out weird and interesting places - gay bars, lesbian bars," says one who has been at it 18 years...
...colleagues applauded their patience in delaying surgery. But some questioned their use of a low-roughage diet. According to Drs. Ernest Johnson and Watson Parker, a high-bulk diet, such as is often prescribed to cure constipation, may have proved more helpful in speeding the thermometer on its tortuous...
Still, the road to a medal of any sort will be a tortuous one. Since 1960, when West Germany's Ratzeburg crew snapped a 40-year American monopoly on the Olympic eight-oared title, the superiority of the European training programs, bolstered by improvements in equipment and rigging concepts, have resulted in consistent disappointment for American eights in international races. And despite an eagerness on the part of several U. S. rowing coaches to adopt new European methods, the gulf appears to be widening, if anything...
...MARCH 19, the 17-year legal battle for control of television channel five in Boston ended on an anticlimactic note as WHDH-TV quietly left the air and was replaced by the new licensee, WCVB. The case had followed a tortuous legal path involving three Supreme Court decisions, two U.S. District Court of Appeals rulings, and five rulings by the Federal Communications Commission. The new station, owned and operated by Boston Broadcasters Incorporated (BBI) and counting several prominent Harvard professors among its stockholders and board of directors, promised to make improvements and innovations in educational, science, health, and children...
Last week Ford Motor Co. announced that the whole tortuous testing program on its 1973-model engines had been invalidated by an incredible staff bungle. During the course of the 50,000-mile trial runs, the company said, Ford employees performed "unscheduled, unauthorized maintenance" on the test cars, presumably including engine tune-ups and replacement of points and plugs. Since the tests are specifically designed to measure emissions from cars that have been kept in less than topnotch condition-as will often happen when they get into buyers' hands-the unscheduled repair work threw a monkey wrench into Ford...