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...condemn it as an authoritarian imposition on students, and those who condemn it for failing to tell students what is important and what is not. When the Core was under construction, the pages of this newspaper were given over primarily to the first criticism. But since then the wheel of academic fashion has turned its inexorable turn. And given the notable willingness of Harvard students to take Core courses even when they don't have to, it is difficult to see them as slaves bending to the will of faculty tyranny...
...venture plans to start turning out 200,000 small cars a year in late 1984 in a GM plant in Fremont, Calif, that once employed as many as 6,000 workers but has been idle since March. The front-wheel-drive subcompact-quickly dubbed the Toyolet in Detroit-will be patterned on a new version of the Toyota Corolla and will sell for a base price of about $6,500. GM and Toyota will be equal partners in the plant, but Toyota has the right to pick the boss. The firms expect the enterprise to hire 3,000 workers...
Except for an instant when his breath came short, the householder did not feel afraid. Or angry. Instead, he even found himself glancing toward the curb where a chauffeur dozed, or maddeningly seemed to doze, at the wheel of a parked limousine. There was still nobody else on the street. He was aware that whatever it was in the thief s pocket might not be a knife. Very likely wasn't. It occurred to him to demand to see the weapon, then dodge toward the hotel. At the same time he felt constrained, in some peculiarly inappropriate way, like...
...represents only a "temporary" solution, there was another sign last week that Detroit is leaving the manufacture of small cars to someone else. American Motors Corp. indicated that it may soon pull the plug on its archaic Spirit and Concord models. That will leave AMC with only the four-wheel-drive Eagle and the hot-selling Alliance, which was developed and financed by its French partner, Renault...
DIED. Gitullio Campagnolo, 81, designer and manufacturer of the world's best bicycle parts; in Monselice, Italy. After losing a 1927 Alpine race because he could not unstick frozen wheel nuts to change a tire, Campagnolo invented the release system now widely used for removing wheels, also devised improved gearshifts and some 50 other items (but not a complete bicycle) that have made the nickname "Campy" cycledom's synonym for efficiency...