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Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 72, called a press conference to tell the world that even though he had not been asked to fill the vacant post of U.S. Ambassador to Spain, he was not going to take the job because the ten-month period remaining until the presidential election was too short "to enable me to accomplish anything enduring." After November, though, if anybody cares, "I speak tourist Spanish with a Mexican accent, but I'm taking lessons...
Harvard will be at several disadvantages, Captain Dave Fish, still bothered by a sore elbow, is a questionable starter. Reserve Rob Sedgewick, who usually moves into the number nine spot, has the flu, but senior Rob Shapiro should successfully fill the vacant position...
...scarred faces of empty, bombed-out buildings are pockmarked from gunfire. Streets are blockaded by ganglia-like stretches of barbed wire and by "antiterrorist ramps"?thick bands of bitumen or concrete nine inches high that force traffic to slow to a crawl. On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: "Up the I.R.A." and "Informers Beware" in the Catholic sections, "No Popery Here" in the Protestant areas. If nothing else, the signs are additional proof...
...Lindsay refused to retreat from the plan, which was to build 840 units, including three 24-story apartment buildings, on an 8.5-acre site at a cost of about $30 million. The site is a vacant tract near the busy Long Island Expressway. Officials said that some 40% of the new units were to be reserved for the elderly, al though neighbors were not convinced that this promise would be kept. They also feared that they would be inundated by ghetto blacks. Actually, considerable integration seemed likely; nearly half of the original applicants for apartments were from Forest Hills itself...
Rangy and strong, he's always in the midst of the action. He led the Bullpups in tackles (37) and assists (46) and is rated a top contender for the linebacking spot left vacant by graduating Ron Kell. Wilheim played both linebacker and fullback at Ithaca H.S., when he was an All-League selection...