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...voice of reason," one student, who wished to remain anonymous, explained yesterday. "He was appreciative of the fact that students had stood off on the issue and not played their trump card...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Dean Ebert Creates Committee To Study Med School Grading | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

Some Towers youths complain of harassment by police and security guards. One claimed that a security guard had cooperated with Cambridge police to trump up charges against a friend of his who the police "wanted...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Roosevelt Towers Burns While Bureaucrats Fiddle | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad. The fortunes of these unrivaled hoards have fluctuated with politics. Stalin had them banished to the cellars as decadent Western formalism. After 1954, the collections were slowly reinstated, and now the Soviet Union has begun to use them as a cautiously played trump in the diplomatic game of cultural exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Riches from Russia | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...title and place, or the family, still intent on straight-jacketing Jack, will have its way. Jack's psychiatrist engineers his patient's conversion in a perfectly improbable scene (complete with an AC-DC electric God and none less than King Kong) and with this extravagant cinematic trump, the movie turns into a deadly serious affair...

Author: By Alice VAN Buren, | Title: The Mad Prince of Privilege | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...friend Arnold Q Arboretum. Good luck to the school-super. Alflorence Cheatham Doeting and Dolphin, let all Grignards rest Spare your students from fructocide on the next text. Now Bowersock. Whitlock, Kagan, Kiely. Keep all your committee meetings smiley. John Bethel and Bulletin Staff, make Good News Try to trump up some vict're for dear Perla Hewes. Drink up, Levines, there's truth in wine. Hey, Master Peretz, you're doing fine. McGovern. Shriver, drown your woes. We all know that's the way it goes. Dick Nix n Spiro, save your glee For the office party at I.T.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greetings to Our Friends | 12/20/1972 | See Source »

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