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...victory -- which would surprise no one -- would be Buckpasser's twelfth straight win. He has won over a million dollars in a two year racing career, and will spend the winter winning more in California and Florida...
Limbo. A signal example of hastily considered legislation was the bill that created the U.S.'s twelfth Cabinet agency, the Department of Transportation. Swayed as much by the exigencies of leaving town and lobbyists' pressures as by legislative logic, the Congress in effect ignored sea transport, voted to keep the Maritime Administration out of DOT and leave the agency in its present autocratic limbo within the Department of Commerce. The President strongly disapproved of Congress' inaction on the Maritime Administration, but he signed the bill at week...
...ceremony reminiscent of both an English royal coronation and a Harvard commencement, M.I.T. yesterday inaugurated Howard W. Johnson as its twelfth president...
Although the facilities in these buildings are generally inferior for carrying out an educational program for children in the ninth through twelfth grades, they would, for the most part, provide improved facilities for secondary school children below the ninth grade. Thus, the availability of such facilities as gymnasiums, auditoriums, and science laboratories recommends the present secondary buildings temporarily for the education program for these middle school children, who, in their present buildings, often lack such equipment...
Baker has been out of the running all fall with a sprained ankle, but his return to form started yesterday as he finished sixth for Harvard and twelfth overall. He was in the middle of a seven-man group--Ryan, McLoone, Stempson, Dick Howe, Tom Black, and Bruce Jones--that passed the two-mile mark only 16 seconds apart...