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...proposed merger would have required Vassar to uproot from its picture-book, 106-year-old campus in Poughkeepsie to the confines of New Haven. That prospect antagonized alumnae from the start; even students, who first greeted the idea of union with delight, seemed to have formed second thoughts. "Just think of losing this gorgeous place," said Junior Andrea Haber...
...Uproot More Trees. Still, the situation is vastly better than it was five years ago before the 61 nations negotiated their first international coffee agreement. Until that time, the grower nations, lured by a postwar demand, planted and pushed onto world markets so much coffee that supply and demand reversed and prices dropped badly. The agreement corrected that by establishing stringent export quotas for each coffee-producing member...
Others try to scratch themselves by rubbing against autos, with unfortunate results for the bodywork. Some smash down boundary fences, uproot trees and chase African herdsmen; occasionally, they kill someone. Whether they turn vicious or merely playful, all of them sway and totter about a great deal, as if they were drunk. In fact, they are. Once a year at this time, Kruger Park's elephants go on one of the world's biggest binges...
...have short, efficient supply lines and also a sanctuary into which they can retreat, their own homeland, where the Marines cannot pursue them. Above all, Red soldiers can operate covered by their own artillery and rockets, dug in deep inside North Viet Nam's border and difficult to uproot from...
...State Department of Public Works announced last Friday that it had definitely chosen the Brookline-Elm route -- a path which will uproot at least 1200 families. The route must still receive final approval from the federal bureau, which will pay 90 per cent of the cost...